Photojournalist Mitch Coltrane has recently acquired the home of the late Randolph Packard, a famed photographer. With Packard as his inspiration, Mitch travels the streets of Los Angeles, photographing houses that appear in Packard's oeuvre. Soon Mitch meets another Packard enthusiast, Natasha Adler, who happens to be a dead ringer for Rebecca Chase, a former film star who appears in many of Packard's photographs. Mitch encounters more and more doubles as he makes his way through this ever-deepening mystery.