When her father threatens to sell their struggling family-run toilet paper company to her wildly successful older sister, overlooked middle child Tessa Schnoster has 60 days to prove she can save it—or be forced to work under him. To do it, she must somehow lead a team of chaotic, overinvested employees who care either far too much or far too little and are always making things worse.

SYNOPSIS:

SCHNOSTER INDUSTRIES is a workplace mockumentary comedy following a struggling, family-run toilet paper company on the brink of collapse.

Tessa Schnoster has spent her entire life believing that one day she would take over the company and finally earn the recognition she’s always been denied. But when her father announces he plans to sell the business to her older sister—an effortlessly successful entrepreneur who has already built her own thriving bidet empire—Tessa is given just 60 days to prove she can turn things around.

Failure doesn’t just mean losing the company. It means confirming the fear she’s carried her whole life: that she was never the one worth choosing.

Now, with everything on the line, Tessa steps into leadership, determined to increase sales, stabilize the business, and win back their biggest lost client. The only problem? Her team is wildly mismatched, deeply dysfunctional, and emotionally over-invested in ways that rarely help and often make things worse.

From an intensely devoted operations manager obsessed with product “feel” to a literal-minded employee who disrupts social norms to an HR manager who treats every minor issue like a full-on emotional intervention, Tessa must somehow harness the chaos around her while holding herself together.

Meanwhile, her sister looms in the background—calm, polished, and everything she isn’t—representing a version of success she can’t match but refuses to accept.

Told through a mockumentary lens, SCHNOSTER INDUSTRIES blends sharp workplace comedy with grounded emotional stakes, exploring ambition, identity, and the need to be seen, set against the most unglamorous industry imaginable.