Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.
When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in New York City's dangerous underbelly, the mob calls weary scholar Nick to authenticate it. Overwhelmed by temptation, Nick defies the mafia and steals the manuscript. As he follows a dark and violent path from a metaphorical Hell into Paradise with his love Giulietta, a parallel tale unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man who, trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and bolstered only by his mentorship under an austere intellectual, escapes to Sicily and creates his masterpiece.
Andrew is a novelist best known to the world as A.N. Dyer. He wrote his first book when he was 27, and it became an instant classic, selling 45 million copies and creating a cult around its elusive author. Andrew wakes up one morning, convinced that he is about to die. He knows that with his time on Earth dwindling, he needs to set right the major relationships of his life, and so he summons his sons to be with him. It’s been almost 20 years since an ‘incident’ tore apart the Dyer home. An incident has a name: Andy. Andy’s the reason his world-famous father, Andrew, no longer speaks to his adult sons, Richard and Jamie, nor to his ex-wife, Isabel. However, when his sons arrive, laden with their own problems, Andrew does not seek their forgiveness, as they expected; instead, he tells them something so wild it couldn’t possibly be true. Or could it?
An old war veteran and man of few words wants to write a goodbye letter to his only daughter and decides to hire a failed writer desperate for money. A relationship which originated purely out of interest ends up changing both their lives.
