Gina struggles with confronting her past, meanwhile her friends need her help in the present.

SYNOPSIS:

"Small Talk" follows Gina Rhodes is a quick witted, 25-year-old African American woman, determined to make it as a Music Journalist with Rolling Stone magazine. Having to reluctantly move back in her parent’s home in Oakland after the recent passing of her father, she’s had a tough time adjusting to things.

Gina goes to her weekly therapy meetings, as her mental wellness took a sharp decline after his death. She’s told that her eccentric personality wasn’t just a result of “being different”; in fact, she’s learned that she and her father shared a huge trait—Bi Polar Disorder. It’s still very tough for her to accept the disorder or even talk about it, particularly after an extremely low episode she had. That "episode" is referred to several times, but only Gina knows exactly what happened that day. As we learn more about her over the course of the series, we slowly reveal the detail of events from her lowest point.

Though Gina has her own struggles, it’s her best friends Cassandra “Cassie” King and James Kaplan that seem to need the most work. James and his boyfriend Xander are always on-again-off-again. Cassie wants to propose to her girlfriend Melanie “Mel”, but doesn’t know if Mel will say yes, or how their families will react. And Mel has a few secrets of her own.

Until Gina’s able to get her dream job, she works at a super trendy shoe store.

In an effort to build her professional portfolio, Gina records a weekly mildly successful podcast called “Small Talk” with her musician ex-boyfriend Joshua “Josh” Williams. There are still lots of things unsaid between the two, especially since Gina’s incident after the passing of her father. There's several "Will they won't they?" moments.

Like many millennials today, Gina is still figuring out her place in the world along with her over-the-top friends. Sometimes, being more of a distraction than actual help the group deals with: trying to make it in a quickly changing urban Oakland neighborhood, navigating White dominated workplaces, mental health, relationships, and LGBTQ+ issues.