They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.' The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, legend of the Silver Screen and object of her heart, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet in this luminous, tragic and evocative tale. Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald bids his own poignant farewell to the American Dream as he unpicks the golden thread that delicately weaves together lives that hang in the balance - beautiful, but destined to break at the slightest touch.