Based on a headline-making true story, WIN follows a fiercely determined young woman who escapes a childhood of poverty, abuse, and dysfunction by transforming her natural gift for persuasion into power — ultimately breaking barriers as one of America’s first female car sales pioneers in a ruthless man’s world.

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WIN is a character-driven biographical drama based on a true story about a young woman who grows up in poverty and discovers that her natural gift for selling is more than a skill — it’s her survival and her sense of worth. As a child living in a rural trailer, Sue begins finding homes for abandoned kittens and selling worms to local fishermen, learning that every “yes” not only brings in money, but also validates her place in the world. She comes to believe her ability to sell is her magic — a shield that will allow her to navigate any situation and create her own future.

Determined to prove herself, Sue leaves home at fifteen and continues refining her instinct for reading people and closing deals. By nineteen, in 1979, she walks onto a car lot — one of the first women to do so — and shocks the industry by outselling the men. Her success makes headline news, but it also sparks suspicion and backlash in a hyper-masculine environment, where coworkers assume a woman couldn’t succeed on talent alone.

As Sue climbs professionally and accumulates the symbols of success, she begins to question the belief that winning and external validation will finally make her feel worthy. The very gift that once protected her now forces her to confront deeper questions about identity, belonging, and what it truly means to “win.”

WIN explores the evolution of a natural-born salesperson whose drive for validation propels her into headline-making success, only to reveal that authentic self-worth comes not from closing the next deal, but from finding genuine connection and acceptance. Grounded, inspiring, and emotionally honest, WIN is a contained true-story drama about resilience, identity, and redefining success on one’s own terms.

* Jose would like to be the director but is not attached.

* In the spirit of The Florida Project, Joy, Fish Tank and Erin Brockovich and Precious

Woman of the year California, Dyan Foster said “It will touch your soul” Golden Globe winner Joanna Cassidy says, it’s a moving story, of love and redemption.