Miss Nobody

A young Sarah Jane is pushed by her mother into a church beauty pageant. Her father storms out declaring divorce, causing a scene, and a statue of St. George falls and kills him. She interprets the accident as a sign that St. George is watching over her and shaping her destiny.

Frankie, her boyfriend in high school, mistreats her. The mistreatment reinforces her belief that she must seize control of her life to avoid being hurt. This memory haunts her as she climbs the corporate ladder.

In the present day, Sarah Jane applies for a junior executive position at Judge Pharmaceutical while living with her demanding mother. She is urged to advance, and she resorts to cheating to secure the job with her mother's and Charmaine's encouragement. The success comes at the cost of her ethics and mounting momentum toward a dangerous path.

Milo Beeber is hired as the competition for the job and courts Sarah Jane with flirtatious behavior. On a rainy night, he invites her to his place, hints at a sexual relationship, and she pushes him away when he becomes too forward. He falls on a ladder and the umbrella he carries becomes the instrument of his death, leaving Sarah Jane to vanish without a clear alibi.

With Beeber's death, Sarah Jane is promoted to his position and gains access to the Clarity research. She prepares to test the drug on Mr. Ketchum and endures a difficult first presentation to the other executives. Nan Wilder, a seemingly supportive new boss, is wary of Beeber's influence and what Sarah Jane did.

While waiting for the subway, Sarah Jane accidentally knocks Nan Wilder onto the tracks, where she is killed instantly. The incident clears a path for Sarah Jane to take Nan's job and continues her ascent without immediate scrutiny. She returns to work under the cloud of suspicion and continued ambition.

Sarah Jane becomes Nan's replacement, though her secretary is a lazy L.J. Charmaine's boss Pierre JeJeune becomes an obstacle, but Charmaine's fortunes drop and Pierre fires her. Sarah Jane promptly hires Charmaine to avoid losing a friend, intensifying the office politics and paving the way for more manipulations.

In a calculated move, Sarah Jane triggers sprinklers that cause Wickham to be electrocuted, removing a rival and allowing her to climb higher. The company publicizes the incident as an accident, and she is promoted again. The line between ambition and culpability grows blurrier with every step.

Sarah Jane delivers a major presentation to executives from different companies, but Morty pretends to be friendly before sabotaging her performance. Later, Morty's apartment explodes due to a gas leak, foreshadowing the peril that surrounds her ascent and the people she crosses.

Detective Bill Malloy arrives at the boarding house to investigate a string of accidents involving Judge executives and begins pursuing the truth. He starts dating Sarah Jane, complicating her situation as she hides her actions. She confesses to Father Grisham in a separate scene, who reassures her that she did nothing wrong.

Mr. Ketchum suffers a stroke as a consequence of the Clarity dosages, and Sarah Jane watches his progress from the hospital. In the hospital, she is warned not to take aspirin while using an asthma inhaler because the combination could be fatal. The tension rises as she contemplates how far she has gone and who might be watching.

Suspecting Leonard Ormsby is blackmailing her, Sarah Jane poisons the waters with aspirin in his bottle to disable him. She uses deception to protect her position while continuing the Clarity experiments on Mr. Ketchum. The plot thickens as Malloy edges closer to the truth.

Sarah Jane romances Joshua Nether and engineers a scenario that makes it look like he embezzled funds before sending him abroad to a country without extradition. He disappears and is presumed dead, removing another obstacle to her ascent. Malloy's suspicions intensify as he witnesses their affair.

Mr. Ketchum finally dies and the funeral is held with Sarah Jane easing into the public's admiration. She slyly hides Joshua Nether's body and the money inside the closed casket with Ketchum's, a calculated move to keep her crimes concealed. The ceremony obscures the truth, leaving morale high among the board.

Charmaine is revealed as the blackmailer behind the accidents and manipulation. A chase to a bell tower ends with Charmaine's fall to her death, and the police suspect Charmaine rather than Sarah Jane. L.J. returns as secretary, and a final twist emerges when Sarah Jane discovers that the bottle she drank from earlier had belonged to Ormsby, leaving the truth uncertain.