Aging Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is ready to do a book on her life and chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write it. Monique listens as Evelyn tells her story beginning with arriving in Hollywood in the 1950s and continuing to the present--and the seven husbands she had along the way. She tells of abusive relationships, calculating ambition, and forbidden love with another woman; and in the end, Monique suddenly realizes how her life intersects with Evelyn's and why she was chosen for her biography.