Brubaker and Phillips deliver a fabulous and sleazy slice of Hollywood noir, a dark intensely psychological tale of a blocked screenwriter who fronts for a volatile friend blacklisted by the studios. When he wales up in the same motel room as a murdered actress and witnesses the ensuing cover-up he's drawn into a web of corruption and betrayal as studio bosses and film stars and enforcers and actresses on the make and swirl around in moody dark colours and intermittent flashbacks to to the lost night of the murder, trying to make sense of it all in spite of himself.