Clay establishes a successful career in screenwriting in New York City and returns to Los Angeles to find a cast for his new movie, but after encounters with old friends and interactions with a very persistent young actress, Clay's inner demons pose a threat to the life he has built.

"Combining personal reflection and social observation, Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction is an incendiary polemic about this young century's failings, e-driven and otherwise, and at once an example, definition, and defense of what 'freedom of speech' truly means. Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him into the limelight in 1985,...

Patrick Bateman (Bale) is a young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street with terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.

Set in Los Angeles during the 1980s, focuses on the issues of multiple characters.