At the beginning of the film, Alex (Hugh Grant) is a washed-up former pop 별, 스타 who is attempting to revive his dwindling career 의해 hitching his name to the rising 별, 스타 of Cora Corman (Haley Bennett), a young megastar who has asked him to write a song titled "Way Back Into Love." During an unsuccessful attempt to come up with words for the song, he discovers that the woman who waters his plants, Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), has a gift for 글쓰기 lyrics. Sophie, a former creative 글쓰기 student reeling from a disastrous romance with her former English professor Sloan Cates (Campbell Scott),...