You Belong Here

It's the first day of sixth form and Essie Rosen is already over it. Her best friend went off to college and barely responds to her texts, her brother's on the other side of the country in rehab, every conversation with her mum becomes a fight and her long-term boyfriend is weirdly distant. Essie's counting down the days until she can escape her Long Island hometown and join her BFF at NYU, where she's sure she'll get into the acting program she's dreamed about for years. But when Essie gets dumped and botches her college audition, her entire trajectory changes.