It's Hollywood, 1958. Devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey and small town beauty queen, under contract to the Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At this airport, she matches her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to become wed to his tier sweetheart and is a profoundly religious Methodist. Their instant fascination not only sets their religious obligations but defies Hughes' number 1 rule. Hughes' behavior intersects with Frank and Marla in ways that are unexpected and very different, and their values are contested and their lives are changed while they are drawn deeper to his world that is eccentric.