False Impressions

Almost twenty-nine, Kate is bored with her life, going nowhere as a struggling romance author and moonlighting at various dead-end jobs---including but not limited to an upscale retail clerk; dog-walking and babysitting;temping at offices and writing for a barely-paying magazine. Her retail store co-worker, Carly, is a chain smoker with a bad attitude and a foul mouth and helps Kate kick up the excitement in her life by getting Kate into the phone sex industry and creating a fake dating profile on her behalf. One day while waiting for the elevator, Kate bumps into Scott, her massive high school crush who'd been an ultra-popular jock. Back then, he hadn't given Kate the time of day since she was the least popular school in girl and he seemed to date only perky cheerleader types. Now, ten years after high school, Scott and Kate reconnect with each other and she will do anything for his attention now, including creating a false identity and giving herself a new and improved life, even if it's not real. She doesn't care that Scott's going through a messy divorce and he sees her as a potential "friend with benefits" while she mentally prepares for their future together. Kate's lies slowly unravel as she spends more and more time with Scott, making him want the "fake Kate" and it doesn't take long before she can't figure out who she really is anymore.