Arriving into the chaos of mid-'60s New York, Edie Sedgwick (
Sienna Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan artist
Andy Warhol (
Guy Pearce), who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistable muse. Warholm invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian paradise.
Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an idol at The Factory and a media darling.
She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star (Hayden Christensen), the man known as "the voice of a generation." But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both --- and once again, set adrift in the modern world.