'Once upon a time a vain little girl carrying a loaf of bread to her starving parents threw the precious loaf into a puddle and stepped on it to avoid getting her shoes dirty. The bread began to sink into the mud and she sank with it, all the way down to Hell.'
In 1960s Hollywood owning a pair of designer shoes is a worthwhile life's ambition. After all, appearances are everything when nothing is real. But in the wake of the grisly Manson Family murders in the summer of 1969, the brittle veneer of glamour is threatening to crack. Suddenly even movie stars are not safe.
Luckily, all good Los Angelinos know that the best way to deal with reality is to reinvent it. For at least three of them, it's a way of life. Leah, whose enchanted prince has become a frog, reinvents her life by transforming her surroundings; Cassie dreams of stardom as she moulds her body into a perfect plastic replica of her favourite move star; and Elena, the magician's assistant who became an Academy Award-winning actress, is the ultimate chameleon.
When the paths of these three master illusionists cross, their realities are changed forever.
