Apprenant qu'elle sera déportée au Canada pour avoir contrevenu au règlement sur l'immigration, Margaret Tate, éditrice redoutable d'une grande maison de New York, force son assistant Andrew Paxton à l'épouser dans les plus brefs délais. Flairant l'imposture, un agent des services d'immigration leur promet un examen en profondeur de leur dossier, forçant la froide carriériste et l'aspirant écrivain à faire plus ample connaissance. Et quel meilleur moyen qu'un séjour en Alaska chez les parents d'Andrew, à l'occasion du 90e anniversaire de sa grand-mère? Sur place toutefois, Margaret découvre un lieu enchanteur, ainsi qu'une future belle-famille aimante et fortunée qui, apprenant leur mariage prochain, l'adopte sans condition. Jusqu'où Margaret et Andrew devront-ils pousser le mensonge?
Debbie et Peter sont les meilleurs amis du monde malgré leurs caractères diamétralement opposés. L'une apprécie sa routine avec son fils à Los Angeles, l'autre se régale de changement à New York. Lorsqu'ils échangent leurs maisons et leurs vies pendant une semaine, ils découvrent que ce qu'ils pensent vouloir n'est pas forcément ce dont ils ont vraiment besoin.
En 1929, Max Perkins, éditeur chez la société Scribner de New York, parcourt son lot quotidien de manuscrits lorsqu’on lui apporte un projet de livre d’un certain Thomas Wolfe. Convaincu qu’il vient de découvrir un écrivain de talent, l’homme qui a fait connaître les œuvres d’Ernest Hemingway et de Francis Scott Fitzgerald veut le publier. La rencontre entre les deux individus marque le début d’une relation profonde entre un génie du travail d’édition et un auteur narcissique au talent démesuré, mais plutôt difficile à vivre.
Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
When editor Jane Grant receives a plus-one invitation to her cousin's wedding, she finds herself in a predicament. To one-up her old high school rival Natasha Nutley, Jane tells her about her perfect, charming and handsome boyfriend -- except he isn't real. Catching word of her "boyfriend," Jane's intrusive Aunt Ida demands he make an appearance at the wedding. Now, Jane must go on every date she can snag to find a man who fits the bill.
Sparks fly when Anna Penn and Charlie Hudson meet. Unfortunately, they're both engaged to other people. In fact, they're staying at the same New York City hotel in order to work on wrapping up the last details of their nuptials. Over days and evenings of joint wedding planning, the two grow closer -- and start to wonder if they're getting married to the right people after all.
James is still in love with his ex-wife Barbara and has one last chance to win her back. While his friends and parents try to help, they're dealing with their own complicated love lives. But, in a crazy world, love is the only thing that makes sense.
Pablo and Fernando, owners of a children's book publishing company about to go bankrupt, have managed through unorthodox means to contract the country's best-selling author, Adela Mora. The evening of the official signing, Paco asks his friend to let him use his house for a love tryst while Fernando wines and dines Adela. At the same time, Paco's wife, Carmen, will be taking her lover to Rosa's house. From here on the rout begins, as Paco tries to get rid of Silvia, his secretary, and Carmen, her husband. Fernando thinks Rosa is cheating on him with Oscar, who thinks Fernando is gay and having an affair with his partner, while the soldier thinks his girlfriend is a professional...
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.