Two estranged siblings find themselves on an impromptu roadtrip to a casino and NYC with their terminally ill mother after she announces she's using a prescription to end her life in a few days.
Intermixed with moments of memory and flashbacks, during the present, VIivien is caught off guard when her terminally ill mother, Dahlia, a quick-witted Filipino immigrant, tells her that she wants to hasten the end of her life with a prescription. Panicked, Vivien calls her estranged brother, Jun, home to help convince their mother to reconsider. After their botched intervention morphs into an impromptu road trip through the Northeast, years of resentment, failed expectations, and secrets come to surface.
Zorinah Juan is a Filipino American film writer, director, and producer best known for her Feature film, When When We Grow Up, which won the Hoosier Lens Best Feature Film award at Indy Fest and was featured on Polygon's 20 Best Films Born from the Asian Diaspora list, "...where Juan makes the film stand apart, is with her eye for cultural questions that may not be fully articulable." -Siddhant Adlakha, Polygon Film Critic. When We Grow Up is currently distributed on Amazon Prime Video. Zorinah's short film, Howard, won the Audience Award at the DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival. The Second Province, her first short film, was screened all across the U.S. and was distributed in Europe. Zorinah was an Artist-In-Residence at the Napa Valley Film Festival. In addition to her own projects, Juan has worked as a script supervisor on many notable, award-winning Independent & Studio films and compelling television shows. She has worked alongside Lynne Ramsay, Sian Heder, Yvette Lee Bowser, Jim Mickle, and Cary Fukanaga. Juan has collaborated on projects that have won awards at Cannes, Sundance, Berlinale, and Toronto International Film Festival. Zorinah lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.C. and Bari, Italy.
