This story about the art and love Auster is a double: of course, the writer signs the screenplay, adapting partial or rather continuation of his novel "The Book of Illusions." And furthermore, is himself Auster who directs the film, his second experience as a director after "Lulu on the Bridge".
According to Paul Auster explained in an interview:
"At the end of" The Book of Illusions ", a film protagonists vision of a fictitious director of silent films, Hector Mann, in which the muse for a writer was dying slowly as he progressed in his best work. Events Next, he got resurrected launching the book to the flames. I left the story in point is. Now I have reached the opportunity to continue. One third of the film will images as described in the novel. The remaining two thirds will continue the argument.