Summer Beck is a closet conservative, flower child, determined to avoid getting trapped by a man. She has a flower power VW and a secret plan for success. She hides her politics from her loving, wonderful and crazy hippie parents who live on a houseboat in Sausalito. Summer has an amazing talent blowing and crafting exquisite glass. Lorenzo Medici is the obsessed Venetian Prince who discovers Summer's stunning glass talent and goes to San Francisco to find her. When he meets her, Lorenzo determines he will own Summer. Through the elegant stage of the historic America's Cup races, his yacht, a talking Ferrari, and an offer Summer cannot refuse, the dark prince lures the lovely Summer to his Venetian home to make her is own. Will Summer surrender her free spirit to the obsessive elegant prince?