
Plot
In 1978, narcissistic fading actress Madeline Ashton performs in a Broadway musical. She invites long-time friend and rival, the meek aspiring writer Helen Sharp, backstage along with Helen's fiancé, famed plastic surgeon Ernest Menville. Smitten with Madeline, Ernest breaks off his engagement with Helen to marry her. Seven years later, Helen—now obese, depressed, and impoverished—is committed to a psychiatric hospital where she swears revenge on Madeline.