Years after escaping New York and the center of its artistic world, our narrator is back in town. She’s wandering around the Lower East Side, thinking about the recent death of her former best friend, Rebecca, when she runs into Eugene, one half of the artist-curator couple at the heart of her old social set. Despite her better judgment, she accepts his invitation to a dinner party held in honor of a young, newly famous actress whose lateness delays the party by hours. As the guests await the actress’s arrival, the narrator silently, systematically and mercilessly eviscerates them --- their manners, their relationships, their delusions and failures, and the complete moral poverty that brings them here. When the guest of honor finally does arrive, she sets in motion a disastrous end, laying bare the depravity and decadence of the hosts’ empty little lives --- a hollowness that the narrator herself knows all too well.