I Was Asleep

Sixteen-year-old Ellen Shapiro tells one lie, and it buys her an entire life. In the summer of 1981, a scrappy girl from Scranton joins a teenage theater troupe touring Pennsylvania's dying steel towns and discovers she can write. Then a borrowed station wagon strikes a local girl on a dark river road, and a rich man asks Ellen a single question. Twenty-eight years later, her answer is about to become a television show, and her own daughter is watching.