"Traveling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social conventions in the way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of them?

American teenager Daisy causes scandals everywhere: because Daisy Miller does whatever she wants, with whomever she wants, whenever she chooses. And she truly doesn't care what society thinks.

But Winterbourne, a dignified, proper, upper-crust young man, is utterly fascinated by her. To the horror of his relatives and friends, Winterbourne helplessly follows Daisy across a continent.