

He begins to struggle with his film about Michelle, a Brazilian model living in Toronto and trying to write a novel about a cartoonist. In a cruel joke, Emma takes her pen to the root of this man's vanity, shrivelling his confidence instantly. In turn, Emma controls the story of Edward ( Gael García Bernal), the successful and confident action-movie director at the centre of the comic book she's drawing.

Luckily, Michelle ( Mariana Ximenes), the aspiring novelist writing Emma's story, gives her a way out. She makes a rash decision that she later regrets when she tries to get closer to the plastic fantasy image that surrounds her. Emma ( Alison Pill) is a comic-book artist who works in a factory that manufactures sex dolls, but it's messing with her head.
