JT LeRoy

A story as real as a seductive that surpasses all the headlines and that tells the story of one of the literary hoax that has penetrated the most in a long time. Laura Albert (Laura Dern) writes under a pseudonym, posing as a strange young outcast named JT Leroy. When this is his first novel it becomes a sales phenomenon, and JT sees himself as a star of the novelistic world, there is a unique solution to preserve his anonymity and once, to give life to her nom-de-plume. Meet her boyfriend's sister, with androgynous traits, Savannah Knoop (Kristen Stewart), who connects with her punk and feminist universe, and accepts to be JT facing the outside. Together, they embark on a fierce journey of double identities. He even infiltrated Hollywood and among the literary elite. They end up discovering who they are, in reality, while they are someone else.