Heather Wolfe, a 24-year-old graduate student, forces a meeting with broken-down Leonard Schiller, an out-of-print, sick old writer whose early works, written during the heyday of 1940s and 1950s New York intellectualism, forever changed Heather's life. Leonard Schiller is a decorous, 70-year-old, who carefully shelters himself to complete the book he's been laboring over for a decade.Targeted as the subject of Heather's master's thesis, Schiller quickly falls under the seductive promise of her admiration.As she prods his boundaries to uncover deeper meanings in his work, Leonard is both shaken and emboldened.But this distresses Ariel, his 39-year-old daughter, whose own struggles with failed romance and childlessness derail her energy. Like her father, she invites a distraction into her life that seems to divert her from her primary purpose. And while father and daughter attempt to shield each other from pain, it is only in the freedom to take risks that their lives move forward.
These mismatched souls gradually realize that their individual journeys, which they thought were drawing to a close, are in fact new beginnings.
Starring: Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester
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