Ageing novelist Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) reluctantly agrees to a series of interviews with aspiring literacy critic and graduate student Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose). With hopes of finishing one final book, Leonard hopes that Heather's project can resurrect his career even though his mind is elsewhere, that of his troubled daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor).

Ageing novelist Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) reluctantly agrees to a series of interviews with aspiring literacy critic and graduate student Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose). With hopes of finishing one final book, Leonard hopes that Heather's project can resurrect his career even though his mind is elsewhere, that of his troubled daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor).

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