Joe Castleman (Pryce) is being given the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he and wife Joan (Close) couldn’t be happier. But from the moment the couple arrive in Stockholm, tensions rise. A nosy, insistent would-be biographer (Slater) is loitering in the hotel lobby, an attractive young photographer opens old wounds regarding past indiscretions, and Joe and Joan’s son David (Max Irons), eternally irked at living in his father’s shadow, sulks through the celebrations. What’s more, with all the attention being paid to Joe’s long career, the normally shy Joan is pushed uncomfortably into the spotlight, where long-kept secrets are in danger of being illuminated. An incisive study of celebrity, marriage, and the creative process, this is also as a showcase for acting of Close and Pryce.