Agathe is a French bookseller who works at Shakespeare and Company in Paris and lives with her sister and her sister’s young son. She cycles everywhere, as she has been nervous in cars since her parents were killed in a car accident in which she was injured. She is very close to her co-worker and best friend Félix.
One evening, Agathe is inspired to write the beginning of a romance novel in English, after seeing a man’s face at the bottom of her sake cup in a Chinese restaurant. Félix reads her work and secretly sends it to the Jane
