Story is set in the pre-Depression jazz age. A wartime pilot-turned-writer (Huston) and his new wife (Suvari) embark on an extended honeymoon in Europe; she becomes restless and tests her husband's devotion in unusual ways. One is to bring a sultry Italian girl (Murino) into their bedroom.

Adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel. Hemingway who died before finishing the novel, which was published in 1986.