When bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.

In a Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must cross a treacherous five blocks to escape an invading military force.

After a teenage girl’s perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.