ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
When two wellness gals who aren’t well get kicked out of an ayahuasca ceremony, they encounter a series of upstate weirdos who accidentally give them what they desperately need.

SYNOPSIS
Jessa and Tinsley are Brooklyn wellness gals who aren’t well. They’re floor neighbors who bonded during the pandemic when everything got dark and lonely. Jessa (30) is a magnetic, polyamorous, aspiring artist who loves everything and feels nothing. Tinsley (45) is an amazing plus one who has lost her center. Her fiancée Meg recently moved out to give her space to figure out whether she’s ready to move upstate and start a family. What nobody knows is that Tinsley is grappling with a secret: she had a daughter she gave up for adoption at fifteen whose identity she recently discovered via 23&Me. Torn between the past and future, Tinsley has to figure things out quickly, because their lease is up in a week and she promised Meg an answer by then. Jessa proposes they do an upstate ayahuasca ceremony so Tinsley can realize that her fiancée sucks and she can keep her new best friend. What Jessa doesn’t know is that she might need this even more. Tinsley is sober, but reluctantly agrees.

They head upstate and are quickly kicked out of the ceremony due to the issues they’re not ready to face. They crash at a farm owned by one of Jessa’s ex-partners and try to find another transcendent experience. Meanwhile, Tinsley realizes that her daughter is teaching yoga an hour away and starts to scheme how she can steer them towards one of her classes.

They embark on a desperate series of adventures to find the right experience all while shirking problematic cops and an increasingly worried Meg. Will they find a ceremony? Will Tinsley get to see her daughter? Will anyone get arrested? Will Meg show up at the worst possible moment? Ultimately, they’ll discover that the path to transcendence is directly through each other.

PROJECT TYPE Narrative Feature

DIRECTOR Jeremy Redleaf
SCREENWRITER Jeremy Redleaf
PRODUCER Jeremy Redleaf
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Matthew Ballen

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