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Logan Stone is drowning. He's carrying four metal chairs down West 45th Street with $14.32 in his bank account, a hole in his left shoe, and an off-off-Broadway play that pays in dust mites. Clara Vance is suffocating. As a junior associate at her father's ultra-prestigious Manhattan law firm, her entire life is mapped out in 14-hour workdays, liability margins, and corporate expectations.
Their escape? The Cast & Crew app, where they get hired as "atmosphere actors" to play guest-fillers at high-society events.
When a last-minute algorithm pairs them as an "established couple from Prague" for a lavish Princeton wedding, they expect to eat free salmon, fake a few conversations, and collect their paychecks. But under the blue lights of the country club ballroom, the boundary between performance and reality begins to blur.
As Clara uses her razor-sharp legal mind to protect Logan's dreams and Logan teaches Clara how to breathe outside the corporate machine, their fake backstory becomes the only real thing in their lives. But with controlling fathers, high-stakes careers, and hidden insecurities threatening to tear them apart, they'll have to decide if their connection is just a temporary intermission-or a love story worth fighting for.