Clumsy, charming, and full of contradictions, Agathe lives the rom-com dream: she works in Paris’s legendary Shakespeare & Co bookstore, and there’s undeniable chemistry with her colleague Félix. Beneath the glossy Notting Hill facade, however, she’s an unpublished romance author battling writer’s block who finds herself desperately single. More akin to Persuasion’s wallflower Anne than Pride and Prejudice’s confident Elizabeth, Agathe struggles to find her voice, until she is invited to a Jane Austen writer’s residency in England.

Spending two weeks in a manor full of creative nooks and wandering through forests and glades, she struggles daily with imposter syndrome. That is, until she starts to become acquainted with the handsome yet prickly Oliver Lowe, a distant relation of the author. Grappling with her insecurities and her heart, Agathe must decide between what she’s always known and something–or someone–new. Writer-director Laura Piani draws from Austen while crafting a wholly contemporary and refreshing romantic comedy with a modern feminist twist.