Set in the late 1920s, David Bourne is an American writer and World War I veteran who meets and marries the alluring Catherine Hill after a whirlwind romance in Paris, France.

Catherine soon becomes restless with David over his focused attention to writing and begins to play a series of mind games with him.

In June 2007, John Irvin announced he would be directing a film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's posthumous and final novel The Garden of Eden.

[5] In October 2010, two years after its premiere, Roadside Attractions announced that they had obtained the distribution rights to The Garden of Eden.

The website's critics consensus reads: "Garden of Eden dramatizes Ernest Hemingway's clipped storytelling without carrying over the intelligence that undergirded the author's writing, yielding a thin drama full of artifice and no feeling.

"[11] Metacritic, which sampled nine critics and calculated a weighted average score of 28 out of 100, reported that the film received "generally unfavorable reviews".