The Book of Gabrielle

Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called How To Do It At a book signing she meets Saul an established male writer who is straight She both loves and hates his work which has seeped into her secular Jewish life from childhood The more Gabrielle tells him about her book the more he wants to know about her life the relationship with her younger girlfriend Olivia and her determination to stop using my penis in sex As her book takes form is Saul jealous or desirous Their friendship is tested as is Gabrielles relationship with Olivia The film muses on how we write how we draw And the nature of story and what it makes us do