Max, a failed writer, goes in search of her estranged girlfriend while simultaneously, trying to unload a large quantity of drugs she stole off her bosses to pay for a trip back East to care for her dying mother. She also might have her dead sister in the trunk of her car.

A comedy homage to the drive-in monster movies of the 50s.

After breaking-up with her boyfriend, Florence tries to find herself again in the middle of an emotional storm of a heartbreak.

As we go through our day to day life, do we default to our natural setting of thinking that every little inconvenience is only happening to us? Or do we choose to acknowledge that we are in fact not the center of the world. That some of the people around us might be going through a struggle much harder than our own. David Foster Wallace explores this choice in This is Water.