一位生活優渥的老人與他唯一的管家獨居於自己即將出售的別墅內，他與Jean，他的兒子關係緊張。現實生活裡，唯有文學才能激起他的熱情。一個秋日的下午，他重拾一本前幾天棄讀的小說，開始進入自己幻想的世界。但他並不知道，等待他的會是一個怎樣的結局，而這個結局，又究竟事現實還是虛幻… An old bourgeois man, who lives alone with his only servant, is going to sell the house. He doesn't get along with his son, Jean, and in his actual life, he's passionate about nothing but literature. An autumn afternoon, he restarts reading the novel, which he started several days ago, and he enters the world of imagination. However, he does not know what's waiting for him in the end and this end, would it be the reality or his own imagination...