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A young painter named Aaron King heads out west to California. There he meets and befriends Conrad Lagrange, a famous and critically renowned novelist who, by his own admission, writes "the putrid offal that self-respecting writers reject." Will Aaron flatter the rich and powerful men and women who control the art world, or keep his integrity as an artist? Meanwhile, he falls in love with a free-spirited girl named Sybil