Sienna Hart, an A-list actress written off by the industry as a talentless "vase," loses her brand endorsement and her boyfriend on her twenty-sixth birthday—and is left owing a thirty-million-dollar penalty fee after walking out on her agency. To stage a comeback and prove she is more than a pretty face, she fights for a role in a career-making film directed by Dorian Vail: the award-winning wunderkind filmmaker at the top of his field, who also happens to be the first love she dumped twelve years ago.