Adeline, a once-aspiring novelist, has traveled the world over in search of a story to tell, but, when she locks herself away in the Italian Alps to tell it, she discovers that the effects of foreignness and a beautiful view, like the effects of love, yearning and pain, are no longer as potent as when she first felt them. All of the stories eventually turn out the same.While she struggles, mired in memory, the real lives of her greatest influences...