City of Angels takes place glamorous 1940s Hollywood. While trying to maintain his artistic integrity and marriage, a young novelist, Stine, is attempting to write a screenplay for fast-talking Hollywood producer, Buddy Fidler. As he creates the story about a private detective, Stone, the characters of Stine's imagination come to life on stage. Beautiful socialite Alaura Kingsley hires Stone to find her missing stepdaughter. The stepdaughter ends up showing up naked in Stone's bed. Soon, Stone is beat up by a bunch of hoodlums hired to get him off the Kingsley case.