The script is set in 1977, in Paris and Cinecittà. Elias is a penniless writer, a recluse working tirelessly on his writing. Léonore is the new star of French cinema — and Elias has no idea. Through misunderstandings, fits of jealousy, twists and turns, it will take them one year to find each other; they will even have to face up to the schemes set up by Myrette, Elias’s maid, who is wildly in love with him…