Set in the art, and to be accurate literature, world, we first follow a failed writer that happened to lay hands on a masterpiece.
Jumping at the chance, he managed to make his life a perfect dream.
There the movie really begins, with the pressure of a second book when he has been labelled a genius. Soon joined by pressures from his agent, bank, love rival and finally blackmail.
How will he resist all this? What is he ready to do or to give up?