Playwright Timothy Allen Smith’s script explores the theme of hypocrisy in various guises through an assortment of widely different characters centering around Claire Worthington (featuring a fine and nuanced performance by Janel DeGuzman). A young woman endowed with beauty, a brilliant mind, and a life of financial privilege (her daddy is a sleazy mayor), Claire has achieved fame and fortune as a self-help guru and writer. But while with her public mask she is a constant source of positive thinking who is yearning to assist those cursed with negative self-images and trapped in unhappy lives, secretly she loathes their insecurities and dependencies, only wanting to help them so that she won’t have to loathe them so much. And beneath that first layer of hypocrisy lies an even deeper one – a secret dependency of her own.

At one fateful book signing (although Claire doesn’t believe in fate) she sets her sights on Nathan Miller (Kelan Thomas), an idealistic poet who is less than poetic in his appraisal of Claire’s writing (he thinks it “sucks”). She finds his writing, personality, and blunt honesty intriguing, and a romance slowly brews despite artistic and ideological differences. She also meets her number one fan Lacey (played as an amusingly naïve groupie by Cristyn Chandler) who worships both Claire and a very strict God who doesn’t permit much fun in life. Lacey’s best friend and fellow religious “disciple” Erika (Ashley Rose), clearly more cynical and world-wise than her naïve friend, outwardly disdains Claire, but seeks her counseling nonetheless. They both must face their own religious crises as they realize that the life they “believe in” is not the kind of life they want to live. But can they admit that to themselves and each other?

The deeply layered characters are the script’s strongest aspect, with a plot that draws out the various hypocrisies of the cast members in an intriguing progression. Even the idealistic Nathan will be forced to face his hypocritical side before the end comes. The only character who isn’t trying to pretend he’s something he’s not is the ever-happy, optimistic, humorous, and generally horny bartender named Mack (Quardell Scott) – the source of most of the show’s amusement and a welcome jolt of honesty.