An aspiring film editor receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her own life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Kate is an assistant editor working on a Hollywood romance film when her mentor, the lead editor, must leave the project due to a worsening medical condition. Kate is then unexpectedly promoted to lead editor and finds herself editing her first feature film under an impossibly tight deadline.

As Kate steps up to this huge undertaking, her relationship falls apart. She avoids coping with her recently broken-off engagement and, in turn, loses herself in the work...literally. The romantic footage triggers her memories of her own relationship and she relives its timeline in flashbacks that become muddled with the movie’s footage. With the pressure of a looming deadline, stress and sleep deprivation consume Kate, and the line between memory, reality, and footage become blurred.

Kate works through these personal obstacles as she finds catharsis through the editing process and imagines how she would “edit” her relationship. Through this process, she gains the courage to believe in herself and her art. She is victorious as she comes into her own as an editor, and opens a promising new doorway in her personal life.