Edie Sedgwick bola krásna, mladá, inteligentná, vzdelaná aj talentovaná. V roku 1964 odišla do New Yorku, kde sa o rok neskôr stretla so slávnym extravagantným provokatérom Andym Warholom. Edie sa stala jeho múzou, hviezdou jeho filme Úbohá bohatá dievča, idolom miliónov ľudí a tvárou časopisu Vogue. Koniec jej kariéry i života prišiel rovnako rýchlo, ako jej závratný vstup do žiary reflektorov. Neuniesla slávu a vzťah so sebeckým povrchným Warholom, postupne prepadla alkoholu a drogám, ktoré zničili jej vzťah s rodinou i priateľmi, vzťah s talentovaným spevákom aj vzťah s Warholom, ktorý ju čoskoro vymenil za mladšiu model. Zachráni ju liečebňa drogovo závislých?
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.