At a theater readying for digital conversion, 22-year-old projectionist Mitch inserts himself into the tragic love story that unspools on the screen. He sets out to find the missing woman in a dreamscape Los Angeles, in a film about love, obsession and movies.

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.