STREAMS OF STARLIGHT, loosely based on the actual relationship between a conwoman claiming to be a high-society philanthropist and a mentally unstable but successful painter, explores how the impersonator comes to believe in her assumed identity and how she struggles to separate herself from the person she was born as. Ironically, after vainly trying to make money off the captive artist and contributing to his death, she ends up a prisoner in the same mental institution from which she “rescued” him and retreats inescapably into the personality she played.