confabulate
— vb
1. to talk together; converse; chat.
2. (psychiatry) to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true.
A mystery and a love story - this twists and turns its way through the life of Houdini and the life (real or imagined) of his supposed killer.
I would have given it 3.5 if I could.