Penny hates her temp job, hates her roommate, loves but clashes often with her only sister, and at 26 has not figured out what she wants to do with her life. She's working at her sister's health juice booth at a convention when she meets two enthusiastic nerds who make short horror films. Their budgets are as small as their hearts are large, but Penny decides to sign on to the project and is soon helping with almost every aspect: scriptwriting, scheduling, casting, making props, lights, sound, acting, directing. It's wonderful to watch her discover a group of oddballs with whom to laugh, plan, and splash fake blood. They are working on a deadline: they want to submit the film to Splattercon, a local horror film fest, so they need to finish a full cut of the film in two months. Will they make it? (Even if they don't, the real win is the friendships they make a long the way.)