Jill and his fiancee inez. Accompanied by his parents-in-law, he came to Paris for a holiday. He is tired of writing plays for Hollywood and wants to stay in Paris to finish his novel. However, Elizabeth and her parents are firmly opposed. During a meal, they met their former classmate Paul and his wife. They plan to go to Versailles, while Jill plans to have lunch at Lip Beer Hall. However, they couldn't understand Jill's brain circuit and thought he was deliberately finding fault.
Jill was forced to go out with them the next day. Jill refused to go dancing with them and walked alone in Paris at night. He was lost, drunk, sitting on a street corner, looking lonely. At this moment, the midnight bell suddenly rang and an old car stopped in front of him. The people in the car warmly invited him to get on the bus. Jill got on the bus in a daze and was even more surprised to find herself back in the golden age she loved-1920.
At the dance and in the pub, he heard her favorite composer cole potter playing the piano, writer Scott Fitzgerald talking to him, and writer ernest hemingway talking to him about writing and women. He was willing to talk about his novels for the first time, hoping to get Hemingway's opinion, but Hemingway took him to the art salon to let art critic Gertrude Stein read his novels. He was so excited that he wanted to go back to the hotel and bring the manuscript.
The next day, he tried to experience the magical world of inez, but she was impatient. So in the next few days, Jill went shopping with her girlfriend during the day and traveled to 1920 at night, and the differences between them became bigger and bigger. Jill is eager to feel the slow, romantic, carefully treated and expressed Paris full of traces of artist's life, while Eli just wants to feel the fiery and unrestrained Paris.
In those days when there was a strike every night, Jill saw the painter Pablo Picasso defending his paintings, and the poet thomas eliot rode with him. His novels were appreciated, inspired and made rapid progress. More importantly, he met Picasso's lover, charming Adrijana, and fell in love with each other. One day, he and Adria met a carriage and got on it. In fact, they returned to the beautiful time she longed for most-1890. They went to the Moulin Rouge to enjoy a song and dance performance, and unexpectedly met impressionist painters such as Paul and Gauguin. Gauguin thinks that people nowadays are boring and lack imagination. If only they could live in the era of cultural and artistic revival.
Jill, who returned to reality, became more aware of the irreconcilable differences and contradictions between him and his girlfriend and broke up decisively. He decided to stay in Paris. When the clock struck midnight, he met the girl who sold him Cole Burt records at the grocery store on the bridge. He invited the girl to go for a walk, but suddenly it began to rain. The girl said that Paris is the most beautiful in the rain and doesn't mind getting wet. This is something that Jill has asked inez many times, but he can't do it. They wandered the streets of Paris.
The charm of Paris lies in its long and elegant history, which is both present and historical. Every young artist is eager to follow in the footsteps of great artists and wander around Paris with those great artistic signatures. No matter what era, people are nostalgic, with those imaginary golden ages, this is a kind of cultural nostalgia. However, we have never lived in history, only in our own fantasies. Now is our own golden age.