The Rom-Commers

Emma Wheeler wants to be a screenwriter. She has spent her life studying and writing romantic comedies, and some of her scripts have won contests. She is also the sole caretaker of her kind-hearted father, who needs full-time care, so her ambitions have waited.

Then comes a job offer she cannot refuse: a rewrite of a script by Charlie Yates, the famous screenwriter she thinks of as her writing god. Her younger sister takes over the caregiving, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks.

The job goes badly from the first day. Charlie does not want a collaborator, and he calls her a failed, nobody screenwriter. His romantic comedy draft is terrible, and he does not care, because it is only a bargaining chip to get a different script green-lit. He also believes love is an emotional Ponzi scheme.

Emma decides to argue her case for love stories, for rom-coms and for love itself, and she is ready to kiss him to prove it. Then the kiss turns out better than planned, and the story they are writing begins to follow its own rules.

This is a romantic comedy about writing romantic comedies. It is light and funny in tone, built on a workplace clash between a hopeful writer and a cynic, with real feeling underneath the jokes.