Quirky romantic comedy based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel ' Aunt Julia & the Scriptwriter' & transposed to New Orleans. Set in the 1950s, the film stars Keanu Reeves as Martin Loader, a young newswriter for a struggling local radio station which, in an attempt to boost its ratings, has just taken on an eccentric new scriptwriter, Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk), to write a daily soap opera. Simultaneously, Martin's aunt Julia, not related to him by blood, returns home after two divorces & many years away, & Martin finds himself falling in love with her. When Pedro finds out about their blossoming romance, he starts using it as creative fodder for his drama series
- & it isn't long before Julia & Martin are hearing every detail of their 'fictionalised' affair broadcast to the entire region.