When a film maker's latest movie is critically panned, she goes into a downward spiral - clashing with everyone, from critics to her own daughter.

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Lydia is editing an article, which she then sends a copy of to an editor via email. She then checks Twitter for reactions to her mother’s movie and is happy to learn of the negative reception surrounding it. Celia, her mother, arrives home from a dinner. Once Lydia is called downstairs by Celia, they have an argument about Lydia’s propensity to critique everything. Lydia mentions the embargo has lifted for Celia’s movie, which worries Celia. Once Lydia returns to her room, Celia goes on Twitter to check the reactions to her movie and learns of the overwhelming negative response to her film. The next morning, Lydia takes a bus to school and sits next to Patience, another student at Lydia’s school. They speak about her mother’s movie, in which Lydia discovers Patience doesn’t like the movie. Celia has a phone conversation with Minnie, her publicist, in which they discuss an awards campaign strategy and Lydia’s lack of appreciation for other crew members. Minnie reminds Lydia of a radio interview she has with Mark Posterchild that afternoon. At school, Lydia has a conversation with two friends, Tahlia and Donminique, about her mother’s movie and why she welcomes the negative response. She makes plans to meet up with Tahlia later and makes her way to class. Once in class, she has a conversation about her upcoming internship at the Evening Standard with another student, in which she reveals that the department she’ll end up in depends on the quality of her sample article she submits.

Celia calls in to the radio station for her interview with Mark Posterchild. Once it starts, Mark promotes his book signing event later that evening, then proceeds with the interview. Celia becomes irritated when asked about the negative critical reception to her movie. Once Mark asks her if her feelings were hurt by the reviews, she starts to rant about critics in general but is quickly disconnected. Celia then has a conversation with Minnie, who is angry that she reacted that way, though Celia tries to defend herself. Lydia then arrives home from school, has a conversation with Celia about the interview and her lack of interest in Lydia’s school life. Once she is in her room, Lydia answers an email from the Evening Standard and makes more edits to her article. She then makes her way downstairs, where she argues with Celia, tells her that she only liked the Hair & Makeup in the movie and then leaves. Celia then starts a conversation with Kevin, a friend and film maker. At Tahlia’s house, Lydia speaks about the events that took place the last day she saw her father alive. She reveals that she doesn’t quite understand everything her father said to her about how much he loves her. She then leaves Tahlia’s home.

Celia is talking to Kevin when she stumbles across a Twitter post regarding Mark’s book signing, and decides to confront him there. She makes her way to the book signing and confronts him publicly about his negative review of her movie. He responds with a lengthy illustration, comparing the viewing experience of a film to picking out a sofa in a showroom and tells her that he didn’t connect emotionally with the movie. Embarrassed, Celia leaves the book signing and takes a taxi home. Inside the taxi Celia and Minnie have a video call, in which Minnie drops Celia as a client and explains why she feels Celia is a bad film maker. Once she is home, Celia and Lydia get into their final argument, in which Lydia reveals that Celia has always been more concerned about her own life at the expense of Lydia’s, and Celia reveals that in the argument she had with her father the same day Lydia last saw him alive, she told him her film making career is more important than her daughter’s life. Lydia, speechless, returns to her room, where she finishes editing her article and sends it to the Evening Standard editor. It is then revealed that the article is about Celia and that it will go into production the following week.