Coming Winter 2025 -

The Days Between

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In 1987, nobody called it “adulting” — but it sucked just the same.

Samantha Ryan is a prodigy with a Columbia Engineering degree at nineteen and a coveted job at Bell Labs. But brilliance doesn’t cure loneliness or silence the social anxiety that leaves her tongue-tied among older coworkers.

Too proud to ask for help, she makes costly mistakes. Pushing the wrong button crashes hundreds of servers, earning her colleagues’ wrath. Another blunder — mishandling floppy disks — corrupts vital data and threatens to derail her master’s degree, a requirement for keeping her job.

Desperate for escape, Sam turns to old comforts: Liz, her loyal roommate, and Nate, her mercurial ex, for a weekend away. The Grateful Dead are on tour, the drugs are plentiful, and Sam reconnects with Nate.  

But every high has a crash. By the weekend’s end, Sam has lost both her boyfriend and her best friend. It’s time she learned to engineer her own life — but can Sam rebuild before she self-destructs for good?