Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town.

The story of Clayton Stern, a paparazo who is unwittingly thrown into a chaotic world of family mystery, deceit, and ill-fame. One day out on the town looking for tabloid headlines, Clayton meets Marsha Zonk, who offers him some juicy information that sounds too good to be true. Taking a liking to the young woman, Clayton helps her out in covering up a nasty smear campaign against America's favorite teen pop icon. However, the question Clayton must ask himself is whether he is being used as a device to promote the luscious young star.