The year is 1974. A tiny movie studio in the San Fernando Valley, run by an ambitious, charismatic woman who specializes in cheaply made horror films, is turned upside down by the arrival of a talented, young storyteller. As it turns out, this writer's gift for inventing disturbing horror scenes derives from something more than simply a fertile imagination. By play's end, we've witnessed murder, betrayal, dementia, sexual hysteria, and one man's struggle for redemption.