A raucous, drug-fueled party has taken over a boutique hotel on Venice Beach --- it’s a memorial for Lily, the now-deceased wild-child proprietress of the place. Little do the attendees know that Lily’s estranged daughter is among them, and she has just walked off with a suitcase of Lily’s belongings, stuffed with clothes, letters, and photographs --- the history of her mother’s love life and perhaps also the key to her own identity. As the resourceful, nameless narrator tracks down her mother’s former husbands, boyfriends, and acquaintances, a risky reenactment of Lily’s life begins to unfold.