The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author 'J.M. Barrie' (qv),
which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four
children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes
a story about children who don't want to grow up.
London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes
"Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their
widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie
plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a
play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother,
to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate
bedrooms); the widow's mother; and high society, which gossips about his
attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia's health worsens,
Barrie's ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his
muse to Neverland.
In this drama, we are told the story of how 'J.M. Barrie' (qv) came up with
the play Peter Pan. After some failed attempts at creating a well written
play, Barrie finds himself in a park playing with his dog. Several moments
later he will come to meet the inspiration for his next play, four small
boys and a widowed mother, who seems to be growing weaker by the day. Soon,
the whole town is talking about Barrie and the Davies family, which causes
some rough waters in his marriage. But what comes from his experiences is
the play that comes to be known as Peter Pan.
In 1903, in England, the play writer James Matthew Barrie has a complete
lack of inspiration, and his last work was a deceptive play. When he meets
the children of the widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, he becomes friend of the
family and Sylvia becomes his muse and her children the source of
inspiration. James writes the successful play about "Peter Pan and
Neverland".