The yr is 1942, and Archie Glass Is attempting to get into Hollywood. His probability comes as he's provided a job: Discover a younger white film star earlier than the press studies that she is lacking and he can have a shot at his Hollywood dream. Thus begins a journey right into a Los Angeles you've got by no means seen earlier than, the actors who play the maids, the busboys, the background actors in jungle movies, all spring into the foreground on this dramatic noir a couple of man prepared to do something to make his dream come true. Archie searches the again alley of Hollywood and discovers extra lies than reality. In the end he finds the girl he's in search of and the darkish actuality of being a black man in tinsel city.
