James Waterston

An imaginative middle school-aged girl pours out her innermost thoughts in her cherished diary, getting up to trouble while full-blown musical numbers fill her daydreams about how she wishes her life could be.

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.