A movie about making movies that actually understands why people make them. Pompo doesn't philosophize about cinema, she just moves through every decision with the quiet obsession of someone who knows exactly what she's building. Gene's transformation from assistant to believer happens the moment he reads her script, and you feel it too, because the film itself moves with that same infectious certainty that you're watching something real being created in real time.

Gene works as an assistant to Pompo, a pint-sized producer who turns out crowd-pleasing B-movies in the glitzy movie hub of Nyallywood. When he reads a new script she has written, something genuinely special with real depth and heart, he is deeply moved. He begs to see it finished on the big screen. Pompo's response is blunt: make it yourself. Suddenly Gene finds himself in the director's chair for the first time, scrambling to bring Pompo's screenplay about a composer's life to the screen. With a crushing workload and a deadline only days off, he has to decide what he is willing to give up for the sake of the film. At the same time, Pompo spots potential in Natalie, a wide-eyed newcomer who has just come to town dreaming of becoming an actress. The story celebrates filmmaking as a craft, and it is funny and earnest by turns, full of people who love cinema.