Gil Pender (Robert Owen Harriet Wilson) is a film writer and aspirant novelist. vacation in City of Light with his bride-to-be (Rachel McAdams), he has take to tour the metropolis entirely. On one such late-night jaunt, Gil meet a grouping of unusual – yet familiar – reveler, who brush him on, seemingly back in clip, for a nighttime with some of the wind Age’s icon of art and literature. The more than clip Gil spend with these cultural hero of the past times, the to a greater extent disgruntled he become with the present.