The story revolves around Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre - who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium - did the same.