In 1940, when she is 15 years old, she visits the Stork Club where she meets the short story writer Jerry Salinger who immediately falls in love with her.

Oona begins a career as a Hollywood actress and meets Charlie Chaplin, who seduces her and marries her in 1943, when she is 18 and he 54.

[1] Jérôme Dupuis of L'Express called it a "fluid and well-documented story" and complimented its fictional, desperate letters from Salinger to Oona.

[1] Eric Chevillard of Le Monde criticised the degree to which Beigbeder made the story about himself and wrote that "Salinger, Chaplin & Me" would have been a more fitting title.

[2] Kirkus Reviews highlighted the part about World War II and described Beigbeder's writing as cinematic, calling it "romantic, analytical, sometimes excessively cute".