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主人公阿尔瓦罗（哈维尔·古铁雷斯 饰）是塞维利亚某公证处的一位小职员，虽然贫穷且缺乏天分，他却一直梦想自己有一天能成为一名畅销书作家。而他的妻子阿曼达（玛利亚·莱昂 饰），则与他截然相反，随随便便写了一本书就出名了。为了实现自己的理想，阿尔瓦罗去向写作老师胡安（安东尼奥·德·拉·托雷 饰）求教，在胡安的指导下，他终于明白，所谓的想象力，其实都是基于现实世界中的经验。为了写出完美的小说，他开始操纵周围的邻居朋友，甚至不惜怂恿他们杀人...... 　　影片改编自Javier Cercas的小说《El móvil》。Álvaro is a man from Sevilla (Andalucía, south to Spain). Poor and clumsy, without imagination and inspiration to write, he works as accountant in a notary and he is married with Amanda, who unexpectedly became famous after to write her first novel. Dreaming with to make the great novel of all times and surpass Amanda, Álvaro goes to night class of literature, asking help to the teacher José in order to find the keys to make it. After discovering Amanda being unfaithful with another man, Álvaro is suggested by his boss Don Alfonso to make a little vacations. Moving to a new building, Álvaro passes the days trying to write in an insistently and obsessively way, with any success. Meeting his new neighbors, among them are Enrique and Irene (two Mexican immigrants with money troubles by the imminent dismissal of Enrique of his work), Sr. Montero (an old man and former military, with extreme right-wing ideas from the old Franco's Regime), and the caretaker of the building, an unsatisfied ...