“When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?”

Assim começa o artigo que Nancy Jo Sales escreveu em Janeiro de 2008 para a Vanity Fair e que servirá de base ao projecto conjunto de Gus Van Sant e Brett Easton Ellis. Uma história morbidamente fascinante e marcada pela inquietude das não-respostas.