Mia, a prodigy at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, hides her Vittori family identity to study in peace. After snatching the prime exhibition spot coveted by Chloe, she becomes the target of vicious online slander and frame-ups. Chloe spreads candid photos framing Mia for consorting with gangsters, ruins her paintings, leaves dead rats in her locker, breaks into her apartment, and finally conspires with her police commissioner father to falsely accuse Mia of theft.