When Camilla Randall, a 1980s New York debutante, is assaulted by her mother's fiance, then loses all her money in the Savings and Loan Scandal, she seeks refuge with her gay best friend in California. But her friend has developed heterosexual tendencies and an inconvenient fiancee, so Camilla has to move in with wild-partying friends. When a TV star ends up dead after one of their parties, Camilla is arrested for his murder. She has to turn to a friendly sanitation worker, her dotty octogenarian neighbour and her nasty, but oh-so-sexy boss to prove her innocence.