The young writer Jean D. has chained his first novel manuscript to his wrist to prevent it from being stolen. Feeling unsafe in his own apartment, he is now living with his actress girlfriend Dominique in her theater box. His mother, a money-hungry boulevard actress, and her lover, a malicious critic, are pursuing the young writer. Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano transforms this youthful episode into a witty hall of mirrors full of humor, simultaneously bringing the past, present, and future to the stage. He sees his play as a counterpart to his novel "Sleeping Memories.".