What happens when a broke deli worker falls for someone whose life is literally sponsored content?
Pablo Rind and Leanna Smart are opposites who attract in an unexpected romance. Pablo is a college dropout, working the graveyard shift at a 24-hour deli in Brooklyn, up to his eyeballs in credit card and student loan debt. Leanna has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. Her brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, step-and-repeats, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them. Pablo and Leanna meet at 5 AM at the bodega in the dead of winter and soon become ‘a thing’ and the story follows the complications of that and their self-discovery.
Direction
Jon M. Chu bringing his signature visual energy to intimate indie romance.
Writing
Mary H.K. Choi adapting her own sharp, specific novel.
Director
Jon M. Chu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Mary H.K. Choi's 2019 YA novel; she also wrote the screenplay, rare for book-to-film adaptations.
The title references the unerasable digital footprint—every deleted post, every 3am like, preserved forever.
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