Jimmy Guerrero is an aspiring film director who moved to Southern California to pursue his dream. He pays the bills by working at a film-to-DVD restoration shop. While manually digitizing a stack of home videos, he sees a tape of Lorna Winters getting shot. Guerrero, a classic film buff, recognizes Winters as a rising actress who mysteriously disappeared in 1960. He shows the tape to his boss and takes it to the police department. The department is too overwhelmed to pursue a sixty-year-old missing person case, and Guererro decides to solve the mystery on his own. He secretly hopes that if his own films don’t make him famous, maybe this case will. He visits Victoria Maddrey, the wealthy woman who submitted the tapes to be digitized. She confirms that the killer in the video is her father, Vincent Gazzo, a mafia member who worked for mob boss Frank Linzetti. Guerrero finds a tabloid from 1959 that publicized Winters’ romantic relationship with Linzetti as well as her romance with David Stander, the director of one of her films. Guerrero goes home to rewatch the tape. He notices that there’s no blood from the gunshot wound—it was staged. He relays his findings to his boss and decides to contact Stander. He thinks the tape may be lost footage from an unreleased film, and he wants to verify its authenticity. Guerrero visits Stander in his home. He introduces Guerrero to his wife "Nora," who is actually Lorna. Linzetti had wanted confirmation that she was dead, so Gazzo agreed to stage a murder on film in exchange for a house from Stander. Winters changed her name and stepped out of the spotlight to keep up the facade. Now that both mobsters are long-dead, she reveals her true identity publicly. After years of professional unfulfillment, Guerrero finally feels a sense of accomplishment.