In 1972, Karl Lagerfeld is an unknown 38-year-old designer of ready-to-wear fashion, largely unknown to the public. His encounter with the young Jacques de Bascher, an ambitious and seductive dandy, changes everything.
It's 1968 in Malibu beach: a year before the most infamous women of the Manson Family made gruesome national headlines. When follower Susan Atkins writes a vinyl record for the man she loves, it begins to spin out of her control.