Sarah Walker is an aspiring actress who is stuck waitressing at a fast-food restaurant. Her friends are generally unsupportive and selfish; Erin is constantly trying to steal Sarah's roles, while her roommate Tracy and aspiring director Danny are apathetic to Sarah's situation. Sarah's prospects at stardom look dim until she takes an audition for a film called ''The Silver Scream'', held by the powerful production company Astraeus Pictures. Her audition is met with a lackluster response by the casting director and her assistant. Upset at being dismissed, Sarah goes to a nearby bathroom to scream and Trichotillomania, a move that regains the interest of the casting director. She returns to the audition and reluctantly acquiesces to the casting director's demand that she rip her hair out again. Sarah is dismissed again, much to her confusion.