A writer writing about writing in Laura Eason’s
Sex With Strangers, which
opens at a remote Michigan cabin that's used as a writers' retreat. It's so remote,
in fact, that a snowstorm has kept most of the participants away, and only two
people have shown up: Olivia (Emilia Fox) wrote a well-received novel a few years
back, but bad marketing saw it flop and she now works as a teacher, writing only as
a hobby. Ethan (Theo James) is ten years younger but already much more successful -
a blog he wrote about his one-night stands turned into two hit books, and he's now
writing the movie adaptation, but he hopes once that's done he can branch out into
more literary writing. A mutual friend introduced him to Olivia's novel and he
became a fan, braving the weather to meet her and find out more about the woman
behind the words.
