What ever happened to Lila Gubar?
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Lila Gubar is an aspiring actress who dreams of making it big like the Golden Hollywood stars of yesteryear. Holed up at home she frets about putting together an audition tape for a starring role in a Broadway play. But something is amiss...
Lila has a secret that will certainly ruin everything. Not yet ready to give up on her dreams, reality becomes increasingly elusive in order for her to chase them. The truth will out, or so the saying goes; and for it, her house begins an eviction of its own.
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