Alice, a beautiful and driven woman , marries a dynamic businessman from Los Angeles in a cold and snowy town in England, when they should have had a society wedding in California  The story of this gifted and flawed woman's rise and fall from grace is told with her own letters, and those close to her, during the explosive growth of early 20th century Los Angeles, the burgeoning financial markets of the 1920's, and the tragic depression during which she committed suicide.