Rick (Christian Bale) is a gold medal screenwriter in Hollywood. The death of his brother Barry (Wes Bentley) and the aging of his father (Brian Dennehy) made Rick start to think about his life. Although he seemed to have lived a lively life and enjoyed all the happiness in the world, it was full of emptiness when he thought about it carefully. Actress Della (Imogen Poots), stripper Karen (Teresa Palmer), model Helen (Freida Pinto), ex-wife Nancy (Cate Blanchett) and lover Isabella (Natalie Portman), these five women who stayed in Rick's life for a short time, what kind of changes did they bring to him?