After years of procrastination and self-recrimination, a middle-aged woman decides to upend her life and go to film school in an effort to realize a lifelong dream. Comic adventures and self-discovery ensue.

Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she secretly enrolls in film school.  She leads a double life and loves the grueling yet exhilarating world of student filmmaking. But, when she gets fired off her own film and found out by her daughter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure folly or a dream worth saving.