Rome, 1961 As the cameras roll on Cleopatra, the world is transfixed by the love affair emerging between Hollywood's biggest stars, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. But on the film set, tensions are high. The money is running out, and a media storm is brewing over the Taylor-Burton relationship. When Diana Bailey begins work on the film, she wants nothing more than to escape from her own troubled marriage and start anew. But as the heady world of Hollywood envelops her, secrets start to emerge. Is everything as it seems? And what really hides beneath the glamour of the famous film?