After years of forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not quite Sotheby's auction rich, the painter Isabel Raven serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the "It girl" of LA's art scene. Unfortunately, just as her career as an artist starts to take off, the rest of her life goes into a tailspin. Isabel's personal chef boyfriend admits to having an affair with a sixteen year-old pop singer who openly bills herself as the Latina Britney Spears, her sociopathic art dealer is threatening to gut her like an emu if she doesn't agree to be in the world's most humiliating ad campaign, and her reclusive Cal Tech physicist father has conclusively proven that the world is about to end.
With only a disaffected Dutch-Eskimo billionaire philanthropist and his dissolute 13-year-old adopted daughter to guide her, Isabel is forced to reexamine not just her own delusional existence, but the delusional existence of her native city as well.
