Floundering novelist Patrick Hamlin comes to Hollywood hoping to oversee the adaptation of one of his novels into a movie, which, in turn, he hopes will revive his career and impress his family once again. However, once he gets to California he finds everything much worse than he imagined--environmental disasters and corporate greed abound, and it all seems to be connected to one new company peddling a brand of synthetic water. Intrigued and seeking answers, Patrick teams up with the unruly Cassidy Carter, one of the stars of his movie, to investigate what turns out to be a catastrophe waiting to happen.
