İki yetişkin insanın erotizm dolu yaşamını anlatan, 20. yüzyılın edebiyat şaheserler arasında yer alan bu hikaye Philip Kaufman'ın usta ve zekice yorumuyla izleyecilerle buluşuyor. Yıl 1931. Yer Paris. Amerikalı yazar Henry Miller'la (Fred Ward) tanışan genç yazar Anais Nin (Maria De Medeiros) kendi içinde bir keşfe çıkar ve bütün samimiyetiyle yaşadığı her deneyimi günlüğüne aktarmaya başlar.

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris.