It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the nervous students huddled in a
circle are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama
school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the
stage. But outside is the real world-a pitiless, alluring place in which each of
them in their most fervent dreams hopes to flourish and excel.
Nell, insecure and dumpy, wonders if she will ever be cast as anything other
than the maid. She'll never compete, she knows, with the multitude of confident,
long-legged beauties thronging the profession- most notably Charlie,