Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at Niemans, LA's finest store, and draws darkly gothic pictures at night. She is adrift in the world and lonely. This is not improved by the fact that hardly anyone buys the kind of gloves that Niemans sell, so she spends most of her day leaning on the counter staring into empty space. While staring into space, she has plenty of time to think about the two men in her life: Jeremy, a man who stencils amplifiers for a living, and Mr Ray Porter, an older man and millionaire who applies logic to relationships, and is serially confused and disappointed.
'Shopgirl' touches on the surface horrors of LA - the false noses, lips, breasts and people - without exaggeration.
