STORY SUMMARY
 

It’s 1990s California. Rachel’s big weakness is music. Pregnant after a fateful one-night stand with a grunge metal guitarist named Frock who had a troubled past, Rachel decides the best thing to do is to give up their new baby daughter for adoption. Deeply regretting her decision, when Rachel encounters Bill, a mysterious young man who has discovered a time vortex in the ladies room of a raucous live music venue called The Electric Banana, she takes a big chance on a trip to the future with only a few days to find her daughter. Rachel enters the future in what is now no longer The Electric Banana but a subdued wired venue called Shadows, and meets the suicidal Ann, who just quit her stressful career as a young attorney. In a dramatic and deeply emotional turn, Rachel reveals to Ann that she is, in fact, her daughter. 
 

Against Bill's plan, Ann travels back in time with Rachel and is changed forever. Ann goes on a partying spree, experiencing the highs and lows, until things get too wild one night at Lollapalooza where she goes to see her birth father Frock for the first time, appearing with his now-trending band Shift. Frock and Ann’s connection also reignites Frock and Rachel when Frock comes back home to continue his daughter's guitar lessons. Finally finding her life’s passion and happiness that she never felt before, Ann is confronted by Bill, who insists she must return to her life in the future. Bill reveals he is Rachel and Frock's second child, who will be born when they eventually reunite at a later time. He is sure that if Ann remains in the past reunited with her birth parents, they won’t have another child.

 

Ann must decide to give up her newfound bliss and lease on life in order to save a brother she never knew, dying there before her eyes. Deeply distraught about returning to her former life back in the future, her decision becomes more urgent when she has reason to suspect she may have lost her adoptive parents, whom she misses and truly loves. Ann revisits the ladies room time portal, but this time there’s a problem. Ann has stayed too long in the past to go back forward. But when everyone in the family comes together: sister, brother, mother and father, they come up with a plan for Ann with a spectacular musical spectral time shift from the rickety roof of The Electric Banana. 

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REVIEW SUMMARY

"I really appreciated how naturalistic and pained their frayed connection ends up being. There is a melancholy and specificity that really sets this story apart from other time travel comedies/dramedies. It’s a time-travel with loads of heart. It has a 1990s nostalgic bent that feels like it has yet to be fully exhausted by most nostalgia movies. The blueprint of this script feels like a can't-miss." GRADE: “Recommend” (Roadmap Writers coverage)