Screen star Serena discovers her boyfriend Richard keeps a mistress and sees her only as a political asset. She breaks away, but is pushed to the brink. Richard's stepson Julian—long dismissed as a failure, secretly the tycoon "Mr Z"—reaches out. They form an alliance, crawl back from the mud, and tear apart Richard's hypocrisy with wealth and strategy. Serena returns to conquer the screen; Julian springs a decade-old trap.