When a photographer captures Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928, no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that follow. Clear-eyed, playful and fierce, this exquisite debut about ambition, art and the political tides of the twentieth century introduces a mesmerizing new literary talent for our times. Based on fact.