Writer Anita Loos & director Victor Fleming struggle to prove they’re still relevant in the age of talking pictures while MGM politics conspire against them. Their collaboration will change film history, but at what price?

Inspired by the dark labyrinthine narration of Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman: a young gay man battles with reality as it seemingly dissolves around him, forcing him to fight a series of ever-more frightening supernatural creatures.

Humanity hits a new nadir when a law passes that allows adults to abort their own lives, while a death director is asked to end someone he once knew.