, which stars Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean as oil tycoons, or perhaps the film There Will Be Blood A Very Recent Indie Release

Ashley smiled for the first time. It was not a warm smile. It was the smile of a woman who had watched her father die of a stress-induced heart attack at fifty-nine, and who had promised herself she would never fight the same way he did.

The following draft explores the career of Ashley Lane and the standards of "extra quality" in the contemporary oil industry.