At a swanky L.A. fashion show, the city’s beautiful people gather to witness the bold new debut from Bonsai¾a trend-setting company combining American and Japanese themes. All is glitz and glamour until one of the models, Miko, is found backstage, stabbed and strangled.
After witnessing the gruesome scene, husband and wife production team, Ava and Frank Bernstein, suddenly find themselves with a new client, Nobou-Wei¾Japanese movie star and father of the late Miko. After being hired to work on the production of his latest television series, Ava and Frank are plunged onto the set with a colorful and eccentric cast of characters, each one a potential suspect for murder.
Motives soon surface as Ava and Frank uncover the truth about million dollar inheritances, jealous socialites, sordid family histories, and more scandalous love affairs then an afternoon soap opera. When more dead bodies begin to turn on up the set, Ava and Frank find themselves under pressure to keep the production on schedule, as well as catch a killer with a seemingly indefinite appetite for murder.
