1927. Hollywood studio fixer Mary Rourke is called to the palatial home of “the most desirable woman in the world”, silent movie actress Norma Carlton, star of The Devil’s Playground. When Rourke finds Carlton dead, she wonders if the dark rumours she’s heard are true: that The Devil’s Playground really is a cursed production. But nothing in Hollywood is ever what it seems, and cynical fixer Rourke, more used to covering up the truth for studio bosses, finds herself seeking it out. 1967. Paul Conway, film historian & fervid silent movie aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumour: that a single copy of The Devil’s Playground, a Holy Grail for film buffs that was supposedly cursed and lost to time-may exist. His search takes him deep into the Mojave Desert, to an isolated hotel that hasn’t changed in forty years but harbours only one occupant & a shocking secret. Separated by decades, both Rourke & Conway begin to suspect that the real Devil’s Playground is in fact Hollywood itself.
