Hungry for strong, sensual sensations, charming writer Anais Nin spends her days detailing her erotic experiences in her personal diary. Her existence brings no pleasure: life is dreary and luscious, like syrup. She has enough free time for ten people; her decent but boring husband is boring to the point of madness, and it would seem that nothing will be able to pull Anais out of her bland existence. But at that very moment, an amazing couple appears: a strange, vulgar-looking type named Henry Miller and his mysterious beautiful wife June....