Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives...

With Great Difficulty.

His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes...

with foolish abandon.

Susan writes about life...

But cant live it.

Johns life is a book...

Waiting to be adapted.

One story...

Four Lives...

A million ways it can end. Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment.

That is, to adapt writer Susan Orleans The Orchid Thief into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida.

While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.