Blue Car

“Ready or not... the future comes just the same.”

Meg Denning (Agnes Bruckner) is eighteen, and the only place she says what is wrong at home is in her poems. Her English teacher, Auster (David Strathairn), reads them and pushes her to enter a national contest, with the finals in Florida and no clear way for her to get there. Karen Moncrieff, directing her first film, keeps close on Meg's face as the people who say they want to help her start asking more of her.