Un escritor que se complace en todo lo que Los Ángeles y Las Vegas tienen para ofrecer, emprende una búsqueda del amor y de sí mismo a través de una serie de aventuras con seis mujeres diferentes.
Salvador Mallo, un director de cine en su ocaso, vive varios reencuentros. Algunos de ellos físicos, otros recordados: su infancia en los años 60; el primer deseo, su primer amor adulto ya en el Madrid de los 80; la escritura como única terapia para olvidar lo inolvidable; el temprano descubrimiento del cine y el inconmensurable vacío ante la imposibilidad de seguir rodando; la creación, la dificultad de separarla de la propia vida, las pasiones que le dan sentido y esperanza. En la recuperación de su pasado, Salvador encuentra la necesidad urgente de narrarlo, y en esa necesidad encuentra también su salvación.
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Delphine es la autora de una novela muy personal dedicada a su madre que se ha convertido en best-seller. Exhausta por sus memorias, Delphine es atormentada por cartas acusándola de haber tirado a su familia a los leones. La novelista, estancada, está paralizada ante la idea de volver a escribir de nuevo. Su camino cruza con el de Elle, una joven mujer encantadora, inteligente e intuitiva.
Los primeros años de trabajo de un director, están en riesgo por el inicio repentino de una ceguera desconcertante.
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in.
Colin is a painting student in Italy, introverted and suffering from a void in his life. He no longer paints. One weekend, he decides to return to France to spend a day with his friends whom he has not seen for a long time. But this little party will not go as hoped. The gap that has grown between him and them continues to widen, to the point where continuing to look away is no longer possible.
Ariel is a painter who finds herself stuck in a creative slump that threatens her sanity. Meanwhile, her ego takes the shape of an Astronaut, looking for something that might awaken her from this creative and psychological state