Haunted by the recent inexplicable suicide of his wife Bella, renowned Israeli writer and Holocaust survivor Adam Schumacher decides to put Bella’s story in writing and publish it as his final novel. As he is confronted with the onset of dementia, Adam reluctantly reaches out to Max Vérité, Bella’s old lover. Together the writer and his once publisher set out on a journey through their conflicting memories of Bella as they try to breathe life into her story, with all its beauty and pain.