The movie centers on Ray Wentworth, once a king of the wordsmith world, and now a down-on-his-luck romance card writer. In trying to recapture the feelings that once made him the greatest, he gets entangled in a web of murder and deceit.
Stephenson has a rocky time bringing this alternate reality to life, if only because the premise at its core is such an inherently silly (and oddly specific) one.
