Due to the California drought, Lee West's family well has dried up. Wanting to be where water still comes out of the tap, Lee moves to her sister's in Berkeley for her sixteenth summer. Big sister, Emilee, tells Lee that Moby Dick saved her from their racist, homophobic hometown. Lee, afraid she'll end up like Mom, married at the end a Smith and Wesson barrel, becomes obsessed about Moby Dick. When she returns to The Ville, Lee's torn between making a dance out of the novel for Porterville's Got Talent (her ticket out of town) and a passionate, purity-wearing, eco-warrior, David, who wants Lee to devote herself to a more important cause, i.e. saving the Central Valley from climate change, not frivolous modern dance. What starts out fun slides into double-barreled torture.
5 parts