Hopelessly clumsy, yet charming and full of contradictions, Agathe finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate desire is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in Paris’s legendary English-language bookshop, Shakespeare and Company. When she receives an invitation to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities if she is finally to fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life.