After a blistering public shaming, a promising young playwright heads to Los Angeles to reinvent herself and work on a semi-documentary about a group of teen girls who have a Fight Club inspired by the book and film.
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.
Not too long ago, Cass was a promising young playwright in New York, hailed as &;a fierce new voice&; and &;queer, feminist, and ready to spill the tea.&; But at the height of all this attention, Cass finds herself at the center of a searing public shaming, and flees to Los Angeles to escape&;and reinvent herself. There she meets her next-door neighbor Caroline, a magnetic filmmaker on the rise, as well as the pack of teenage girls who hang around her house. They are the subjects of Caroline&;s next semidocumentary movie, which follows the girls' clandestine activity: a Fight Club inspired by the violent classic&;but with a twist.
As Cass is drawn into the film&;s orbit, she is awed by Caroline&;s ambition and confidence. But over time, she becomes increasingly troubled by how deeply Caroline is manipulating the teens in the name of art. When a girl goes missing, Cass must reckon with her own ambitions and ask herself: In the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you&;ve gone too far?
