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Ava's eyes lit up like she'd just discovered a new continent. "Oh my god. That's it!"
"What's 'it'?" Beatrice asked cautiously.
"We should do an exchange! For every boring—sorry, intellectual—movie you make me watch, I get to make you watch one of my favorites." Ava was practically bouncing on her skates now. "It'll be like a cultural exchange program. East meets West. High meets Low. Snob meets Normal Person."
Summer, 1984. Beatrice Bennett—Stanford-bound, multilingual, and thoroughly annoyed—finds herself exiled to Venice Beach while her diplomat parents swan about Europe. Her punishment? Minimum wage hell at Rockaway Video. Enter Ava Silva: a rollerblading hurricane with an unhealthy Molly Ringwald obsession who proposes a deal. For every subtitled, existential European film Beatrice recommends, Ava will force-feed her a rom-com that would make any film student break out in hives. What starts as cinematic warfare evolves into movie nights, mixtapes, and midnight confessions that weren't supposed to be part of the summer rental agreement. Because some stories don't need subtitles, and some feelings can't be rewound when the credits roll.
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- Part 1 of time capsule