To the world, Marilyn was a vivacious star, the epitome of sexuality, sensuality, and frolicsome fun. Every man wanted her -- every woman wanted to be her. But behind the enticing smile, beneath the tight fitting dresses, there was a dark secret -- one Marilyn couldn't bury in her past the child inside called Norma Jean. Everything Norma Jean dreams of, Marilyn achieves. Every man she struggles to resist, Marilyn succumbs to. And while Marilyn climbs the ladder of success, Norma Jean waits beneath it, almost willing her to fall.

The disturbing and tragic tale of the inner struggle of the woman known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. While the public persona was animated and vivacious, the inner child, Norma Jeane, was afraid of the success and desperate to end it. To emphasize the dual nature of Monroe's personality, director Tim Fywell cast two different actresses--Ashley Judd as needy ingenue Norma Jeane, Mira Sorvino as glam bombshell Marilyn--resulting in an unsettling and surreal psychological portrait of the doomed starlet.