
Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love & happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship & wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively & volatile expatriates, including F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald & Ezra Pound. Ernest & Hadley are thrust into a life of artistic ambition, hard liquor & spur-of-the-moment dashes to Pamplona, the Riviera & the Swiss Alps. But Jazz Age Paris does not lend itself to family life & fidelity. As Hadley struggles with jealousy & self-doubt, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bear fruit, & the couple faces the ultimate crisis of their marriage
- a deception that will lead to the unravelling of everything they made for themselves in Paris, their 'great good place'.