What's real and what is fiction? Equipped with his publication with writer's block, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script of a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth yields from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself but experienced. The German is in England, gets himself invited to tea at which he says he admires Fielding's books. Which one does he like the best? "Tom Jones." Amused in being confused with one different Fielding, the novelist works the German in to the plot.