LOGLINE
After not winning a nomination for the Oscars, a talented yet acerbic scriptwriter travels the world with the aim of writing the ultimate screenplay -- but nothing goes as planned.
"LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA"
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SYNOPSIS
When Sophia, a Hollywood-born Mexican American screenwriter, fails to receive an Oscar Award for Best Screenplay, she decides to lock herself away and write the best script of her life, win the next Award and achieve both vindication and glory.
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Unable to write in Los Angeles, she and her undocumented Mexican boyfriend Juan decide to move to Mexico to seek new life experiences.
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However, to ensure that Juan can safely re-enter the USA, the two marry in Las Vegas and then honeymoon in Paris.
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In Paris, they meet Laura, a Mexican teacher and left-wing activist, and her American boyfriend Matt.
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At first, they tour Paris together as double couples, but when Laura turns their time together into a hymn to the French Revolution, Sophia and Juan decide to cut short their honeymoon.
The fact that Sophia's wayward father wants to marry a sex worker in Vegas might also be a factor in their leaving...
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In Mexico, they visit Juan's mother, who does not approve of their wedding because it happened in Las Vegas, an unsuitable place for a real marriage. They should have a proper religious ceremony in Mexico.
The couple agree.
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Once settled in, Sophia starts writing again, and Juan finds a job as a receptionist in a hotel offered to him by Matt, Laura’s boyfriend, who has just returned from Paris.
Laura and Matt eventually break up and Juan becomes the manager of the hotel.
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Sophia has to deal with the separation of Juan‘s parents...
And with Juan’s sister's separation...
And of course with the relationship of her father and his prostitute...
And write her next smash hit in the meantime.
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All this strains Sophia’s relationship with Juan beyond reason and she eventually cheats on Juan with Tomas, a scientist she just met.
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Realizing her relationship with Juan is over, Sophia returns alone to Los Angeles, where she grudgingly accepts the services of another professional screenwriter to help her finish her script. Everything goes well...
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Until she finds out that Juan was already married to someone else before Vegas, so her marriage with him is illegal.
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Somehow, she has to fix everyone else's problems, annul her own marriage, and win that Oscar she's always dreamed about.
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But for Sophia, it turns out, truth is far stranger than fiction...