Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer’s block. When she’s invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment… and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.
The film marks the feature debut of writer/director Laura Piani and offers a star-making turn from Rutherford (you may recognize her as the journalist from Anatomy of a Fall). She’s the perfect centerpiece for this cinematic treat, which manages to be a full-on rom-com, a Jane Austen appreciation session, and a love-letter to the very idea of books and letters.