An ambitious journalist lands a coveted job at prestigious political magazine New Republic in the 1990s, where he sets about fabricating a series of articles as a way of improving his career prospects. However, with a change of editor, he comes under greater scrutiny and faces exposure as a liar. Fact-based drama, with Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard and Chloe Sevigny.

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.