贝蒂戴维斯(苏珊·萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰)和琼克劳馥(杰西卡·兰格 Jessica Lange 饰)都是曾以她们耀耀生辉的星光照亮过影史的女演员们,两人事业和感情上的冲突造成了她们彼此之间深深的矛盾,这段复杂纠葛的恩怨情仇在好莱坞早就不是什么秘密了。
然而好莱坞是健忘的,随着年岁的增长,琼发现自己在不知不觉中已经成为了过气演员,不甘心就此销声匿迹的她决定放手一搏。琼选定了一本名为《宝贝简到底怎么了》的惊悚小说,热情邀请导演罗伯特(阿尔弗雷德·莫里纳Alfred Molina 饰)执导,之后又亲自拜访贝蒂,此时的贝蒂事业亦是百般不顺,面对琼抛来的橄榄枝动了心。就这样,在机缘汇聚之下,贝蒂和琼这对冤家再度聚首,在戏里戏外均上演着一幕幕不见鲜血和硝烟的战争。
After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for. Just as she’s getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past.
The 1984 case of Catriona and Adam Grant has confounded investigators and intrigued the public like no other. Catriona, the charming young heiress to a vast oil fortune, and her two year old son Adam, were brutally kidnapped at gunpoint outside a fish and chip shop in Fife. The ransom notes that followed stirred up an uncontrollable press storm, but when the culprits fell silent, the police faltered, and Catriona and Adam were never seen again.
Now, a man’s body has been discovered, with indisputable links to the original kidnap. With the first piece of evidence in decades, Karen must assemble an unbeatable team alongside her sincere and lovable sidekick DC Jason ‘Mint’ and the brilliant – but romantically complicated – DS Phil Parhatka. With the international renown of the kidnap and the constant pressure from Catriona’s father, Sir Broderick Grant, the team take on the biggest challenge of their careers to date. As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear… the past is far from dead.