It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hotel Dureau has been home to generations of up-and-coming young actresses. When Sophie Vance checks in, fresh out of San Francisco and newly graduated with a degree in Theatre, she's just the latest in the current batch. There's Lila Taylor, who left home at eighteen to pursue life in the theatre; there's Ruby Linden, glamorous, effervescent and alone; sweet, quiet Miranda Whittaker who just might be the most talented one there, and a dozen others, each looking for her place in the theatre, whether it's holding the pen or taking the bow or on her toes. Lila takes Sophie under her wing, but that may not be enough to get the girls through a year of hardships and heartbreak, sacrifice and struggle, or to get either one of them on the stage.

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