After Mateo’s father died in a car crash, the rebellious teenager doesn’t attend his funeral but instead, spends the day with his friends skating and ignores his mother and sister while they continuously try to contact him.
On the opening night of “Romeo and Juliet”, our title actors begin to realize their desires to play each other's roles, and while still in love, they begin to clash.
Donna, the daughter of the perfect nuclear family, is contemplating major life decisions unbeknownst to her family. One evening, Donna and her family are eating dinner and watching TV, when news breaks out of a nuclear bomb threat surrounding the area. The family is forced to seek shelter in their basement. Once confined in the space, opposing beliefs put each family member at odds with another as each confronts their anxieties of a society on the brink of war. As tensions grow, Donna isn't sure where she is safe anymore and must decide between the idealist family she wants or the liberation she needs.
