This is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. It tells this story through Highsmith’s eyes—reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. It opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing—what will eventually be Strangers on a Train. At the same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and broken hearts in her wake. However, one of those very affairs and a chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of its kind—it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending.