A young actress, thought to be easy and have no morals, gathers three former school chums to find out which is her mother. Much of the movie takes place in flashback and the identity of her mother is not found out till the last few minutes.
Lili urges the three women to expose the other as her real mother, but they remain silent.
Lily must now find her father to save her newly found mother. Her mother, Judy went to Asia to interview the head of a revolutionary force. When she gets there, she is told that she was brought there so that they could ask for a million dollars ransom. Lily doesn't have that kind of money, so along with her mother's friends, Pagan and Maxine must find her father and ask him for the ransom. Her mother wrote three romans a clef about the man who's Lily's father. So each goes off to see the men that are depicted in Judy's stories.
