A poor mistake of one genius mother in her science lab places a perfectly normal family in a situation where the three children must now live under one roof with two more teenagers – their PARENTS. Until they’re able to fix what went wrong, they must live together in the same house, and keep the whole thing a secret from the world. Worst of all, the parents must join their teenaged-twins’ class in high school – pretending to be their cousins.
How does it feel to go to school WITH your parents? How does it feel when the hottest boy in class falls in love with your MOTHER instead of falling for you? And how did it happen that your DAD now has more friends on FACEBOOK than you? Will the kids and parents of the Gillman family learn new things about each other, about family and perceptions, before they change back to being normal?
Noam is a 24-year-old columnist struggling to establish himself as a writer, and not lose his mind in the process. A challenging task since his father is famous not only for his great talent as a writer, but also for his outrageous borderline personality. When Noam hits rock bottom fueled by a deadly combination of drugs, he finds his own route to normality in the unlikeliest of places: the psych ward.
When you’re in your early twenties, your best friend is a like a song you can’t stop listening to on a loop, until you never want to hear it again. Sad City Girls is a dramedy about that kind of friendship, and the moments of magic and obsession, the good vibes and bad news, that make it so wonderful and terrible.