Hunter and big game fisherman; hot-headed combatant in the Great War; committed to just causes like the Spanish Civil War; aficionado a los toros in the manner of a purebread Spaniard; outstanding short story writer; unashamedly frank journalist for the Toronto Star and Life magazine; hugely successful novelist; winner of the Nobel prize one day, and overcome with depression the next - Ernest Hemmingway was all these. What writer Jean-Pierre Pustienne reveals in this biopic is a portrait of an icon who, with windows wide open to the world and unexpected, gave as good as he got.