At the beginning of the film, Alex (Hugh Grant) is a washed-up former pop bituin who is attempting to revive his dwindling career sa pamamagitan ng hitching his name to the rising bituin of Cora Corman (Haley Bennett), a young megastar who has asked him to write a song titled "Way Back Into Love." During an unsuccessful attempt to come up with words for the song, he discovers that the woman who waters his plants, Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), has a gift for Pagsulat lyrics. Sophie, a former creative Pagsulat student reeling from a disastrous romance with her former English professor Sloan Cates (Campbell Scott),...