The year is 1997. FBI deputy director Sean Archer (John Travolta) is about to have the ultimate lunchtime tweakment and Face/ Off with malevolent terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). Elsewhere in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie is growing out her Hackers pixie crop and plucking her brows to the finest wisp for her role in supermodel biopic Gia. That same month, down the road in Orange County, a baby is born.
She has her own cherubic face, her eyebrows are yet to grow, be bleached and pencilled back in, but as Gabriella Leigh Bechtel rolls around in her nappy, she dreams of abandoning her surname and adding a Les Mis level ‘ette’ to her name to become an influencer sometime around the 2020. Concurrently in LA, Lisa Rinna — an actress, model and ‘entrepreneur’ — is married but not yet a Real Housewife. In her ovary, budding daughter Amelia lurks, waiting to hatch and bring these seemingly unrelated tendrils of Californianhistory together, in the year 2023.
