On the dark fringes of Hollywood's sparkling glamour live the eternal strivers, the unsung unknowns whose unquenchable ambition and ambivalent compliance fuels America's dream factory. These characters are connected by their internal tangle of deluded grandeur and wrenching resilience. They give a contemporary voice and fully-rendered consciousness to the mysterious, dangerous, devoid-of-inner-life femme fatales who have long been central to the city's identity.