In a matter of months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown—and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso." Many accused her parents of exploiting their daughter for financial gain. Then, five months into Marla's new life as a celebrity, a bombshell dropped. 60 Minutes aired an exposé suggesting strongly that the paintings were painted by her father, himself an amateur artist. Barraged with hate mail and ostracized around town, the embattled Olmsteads turned to filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev to clear their name. But would it turn out to be so simple?
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