The Adventures of Saul Bellow, directed by Asaf Galay, tells the story of Saul Bellow, one of America’s most celebrated and controversial writers. The film uses archival and newly-produced footage and voiceover readings of Bellow’s own works to follow his career. The film focuses on six of Bellow’s own novels and how they portray his life, his experience as the child of immigrants in Chicago, and his writing process in order to get a better understanding of Bellow and American culture in the 20th century.

Saul Bellow was one of the twentieth-century America's most acclaimed novelists, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. In the first documentary film about his life, Bellow's story is told through original interviews, previously restricted footage, and visits to the places that shaped him. The film explores his many identities–as a writer, Jew, polemicist, and Chicagoan. Interviews include the writers Philip Roth, Vivian Gornick, and Martin Amis, as well as family members, who bring to life Bellow's artistry and impact on the postwar years.