Karen Bethzabe

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Jesse Struthers and his brother Jake find themselves on the run after a band of men begin murdering their family.

The lives of rival gang members, a teacher, a TV news crew and other intertwine in the city of Los Angeles.

A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state, finds solace in her relationship with an eight-year-old, physically-disabled girl named Justine, who she takes care of.