"The Failure Plan"

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Alex constantly finds himself in trouble. He still hasn’t adjusted to his mother’s absence since she left to pursue her artistic career years ago. Alex runs into a series of unending hurdles. He was almost expelled from college. He was caught stealing weed. And he had a car accident. Each time, his father, a prominent university professor, rescues him. When Alex gets into a second car accident, he wants to prove to his father that he can face the consequences on his own and appear self-sufficient to his father’s teaching assistant, Rashid, whom Alex secretly has a crush on. But frustrated with the situation, he’s rude to Rashid and is about to lose his driver’s license. Refusing to have his father make the misfortunes disappear, Alex wants to learn to solve his own problems. So he decides to carry out a failure plan: he will travel to cities where he doesn’t have a safety net, intentionally creates obstacles, and overcome them all by himself. As he attempts to grow up and be independent, his problems compound and turn more difficult to deal with. To move on, he must revisit the ghosts of the past, address his conflicts with his parents, and apologize to Rashid. The Failure Plan is a light-hearted, contemporary story of developing emotional maturity.