Angel Deverell reaches the age of majority in Cheshire Edwardian knowing that it will become a great writer. Rising above his social class, his mother has a grocery, Angel is an editor and a wide audience for their banal love stories. Thanks to royalties purchase a farm, where he met Esme, a parasite belonging to the local aristocracy, who is both an artist of great temperament. Angel hires Esme's sister as his personal assistant to go after him. Angel is a great egocentric that colors their world as if it were one of his novels, but when World War I breaks out and wakes from sleep, can he keep her man and his readers at once?