The Paper Wasp

DEBUT High school best friends Abby and Elise have become polar opposites in the ten years leading up to their high school reunion. Abby, a brilliant artist whose gift for premonitory dreams hides in plain sight on her canvases, lives with her parents and plods through her cashier job at a Michigan superstore, hoarding every detail about Elise that's printed in the tabloids. Hollywood starlet Elise's glam life leaves her wanting more and more. Both women are obsessed with the legendary director Auguste Perren, whose creative institute fosters a cultlike following. When Elise tosses off a casual invitation for Abby to visit her in California "someday," Abby abandons her life in the Midwest, heads to Hollywood, and insinuates herself into Elise's world of wealth, insecurity, and addiction. As Elise's life skids out of control and her dependence on Abby intensifies, Abby's grip on her own vision of reality gains a terrifying power.