Angel (Ramola Garai), is a young lady who feels that she can be a fantastic writer. Angel lives in fantasy world where she becomes a chronic liar to help her vision of herself as a great writer. However her writing skills are somewhat basic yet she dreams about how glamorous and exciting life would be when she becomes a famous writer. This fantasy world of artistic success becomes reality for her in many ways in her mind. Angels life begins to change when she meets Nora Howe-Nevison (Lucy Russel), who absolutely loves Angel and her writing skills. Nora then becomes Angels personal assistant and introduces Angel to her brother Esme (Michael Fassbender). Almost overnight Angel falls deeply in love with Esme who happens to be a struggling painter. Angels life takes a very complicated twist when it seems that Angel now has two lovers both Nora and her brother Esme.