At the beginning of the film, Alex (Hugh Grant) is a washed-up former pop bintang who is attempting to revive his dwindling career oleh hitching his name to the rising bintang 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 menulis lyrics. Sophie, a former creative menulis student reeling from a disastrous romance with her former English professor Sloan Cates (Campbell Scott),...