Paige and her brother Zak are invited to try out for WWE after a lifetime of touring with their tight-knit wrestling family.

No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim, " when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of...

"As classmates, shy artistic Sonny and charming, popular Gunner had nothing to do with one another, but now, in the stifling climate of Eisenhower's America, where prejudice and paranoia rule the day, the two young men find in each other the strength to change their lives and futures. Each must choose between the suffocating, but familiar comforts offered to them by their mothers and their old flames and friends, or the exciting, but uncertain futures...