"Write the script for the greatest movie of all time!" Mitchell Draper naturally accepts this challenge. The gifted writer - as the young author likes to call himself - has been waiting a long time for his great talent to finally be discovered. "Don't you find the assignment a bit mysterious, Mitchell?" friends point out, trying to bring Mitchell back down to earth from his high-flying ambitions. Their concern seems justified, even though they are still underestimating the extent of the "mysterious" at this point. "What’s wrong here?" the reader soon wonders as well. And it won’t come as a surprise that from now on, pretty much everything in the lives of Mitchell and his friends will be turned upside down.