Plot SynopsisThe credits play over a lace doily, after which the film""s setting in the mid-nineteenth century is introduced:1847In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatres, balls and gambling clubs, where the code was discretion - - but the game was romance.Don""t you know that half of the society dames in Chicago trot their daughters out for my inspection? Like fillies at a racetrack! Girls with beauty, breeding, accomplishments.His heart and brain (with a chip interface) were the only human organs, and he had a hybrid nervous system: "One human cortex, one machine." At her apartment door, she asks Sidney to tell her brother: "Tell him for me that Steve is the first real man I""ve ever been in love with.Wasn""t that incredible? Night after night, I sat right next to the Emperor of Austria, playing duets with him, correcting the royal sight-reading.