Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in
England - but now, in his early 70s, his reputation is fading,
sales have dried up, and his new wife has expensive taste.
Harry, a young writer, is commissioned to write a biography to
revitalise both Mamoon's career and his bank balance. Harry
greatly admires Mamoon's work and wants to uncover the truth of
the artist's life. Harry's publisher seeks a more naked truth, a
salacious tale of sex and scandal that will generate headlines.
Meanwhile Mamoon himself is mining a different vein of truth
altogether.
Harry and Mamoon find themselves in a battle of wills, but which
of them will have the last word?