It traces the life of the legendary author, from the images and memories of his childhood to his tragic suicide at the age of 62. We meet Hemingway as a young man dominated by the virile figure of his father, a doctor devoted to hunting and fishing. Hemingway next appears as an 18-year-old ambulance driver during World War I, who is wounded on the Piave front. In the hospital, he meets and falls in love with a young Red Cross nurse, who later becomes the model for his heroine in A Farewell to Arms, a fictional account of his experience as a young soldier facing the horrors of war. Hemingway becomes a foreign correspondent and travels to France, Italy, and Spain, but soon abandons his journalistic career and settles in Paris to write novels and short stories. Interspersed throughout the story are Hemingway’s encounters with an enigmatic woman of indeterminate age who becomes his closest confidant. She is the personification of the shadow of death and accompanies him throughout his life. In the end, she finds him in a clinic, a disillusioned old man consumed by anxiety and depression. Shortly after, Ernest Hemingway takes his own life with a shotgun.