Almost content with summoning the dearly departed of Hollywood's starlets and society matrons, Billie thinks she's hit the big score when she meets a bereaved oil millionaire. But in a city like Los Angeles there are things even a fake psychic can't predict.

Against the electric backdrop of the 1920s jazz age, a tangle of desperate souls love, lie and raise the light in this reading of a darkly comic new play where everyone has a racket and the only rule is capture.