A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.

Splendeurs et miseres de la grande epoque d'Hollywood dans les annees quarante. L'histoire d'un producteur tyrannique, d'un realisateur paranoiaque, d'une pin-up mariee vingt-quatre fois, d'un acteur qui refuse de vieillir...