The year is 1942, the place is Los Angeles, California, and the people are the brightest and richest stars of their day. Some of them will be immortalized later, others will fade into obscurity as time passes, but one thing they all have in common is that they are a part of the gilded cesspool that is Hollywood. Even in a time before the paparazzi and Perez Hilton, these men and women were known everywhere that they went, and anybody who was somebody knew them and catered to their every whim. The parties and the scandals were not much different from those that we encounter today, and the price to pay could be just as heavy, if you don't know the right people to help you out in a tight spot.
The population of Hollywood is not simply limited to movie stars. Private eyes, police officers, city officials, Mafia men, wannabes, has-beens, writers, directors, producers, hookers, drug dealers... they all exist here as well, and every one of them has an equal opportunity to rub elbows with the stars... or even to become stars themselves.
Welcome to Gilded Age, where the only thing that can limit your rise is your morality.