Modern-day Hollywood. After growing bored with her scheming movie producer boyfriend, Christian, young actress Tara rekindles an affair with a former flame. When Christian learns of her infidelity, the couple is plunged into the darkest depths of human desire.

Paul Schrader’s collaboration with Bret Easton Ellis is a caustic take on a Hollywood that lives off the dashed hopes and broken dreams of an ever-renewing influx of chumps and suckers. Sex and violence reign in this stylish and uncanny vision of Los Angeles, all smooth surfaces and digital grain.