The Focusing Effect is a faux-documentary/horror film about three film students who make a doc about breakups, only to push one of their subjects too far.

Joy Holbrook is an intuitive market researcher in DC who has captured the attention of the account's CEO and is about to get a sweet promotion, just in time for the holidays. She receives an urgent phone call from home and she rushes back to Crystal Falls, NC to help her Aunt recover from surgery and is reunited with her former crush, Ben. To keep her Aunt focused on healing, Joy volunteers to take Ruby's place with the town's legendary baking competition, the "Cookie Crawl," much to the amusement of Ben who knows Joy has absolutely no idea of the Herculean task before her. Though Joy initially refuses Ben's attempts to "co-captain," she begins to soften and let him in, all the while remembering that there truly is no place like home.

Loosely following a traditional Passover Seder, events from the Book of Exodus are retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus, and the director's own father. But there's another side to this story: that of the Goddess, humankind's original deity. Seder-Masochism resurrects the Great Mother in a tragic struggle against the forces of Patriarchy.

遭到友(😌)人(rén )設(😥)局而欠下大筆債(zhài )務的張父，逼不得(dé )已帶著(🛬)一家(🎤)四(🚐)口(kǒ(⛎)u )承租花(🤔)蓮的一(🗓)處 凶(xiōng )宅，此處過去曾發(fā )生了駭人聽聞的五(🍛)子命案(🦀)。初入(👰)凶(xiōng )宅(🤷)的當天(🔔)，一些若(ruò )有似無鬼影幢幢，加上張父突如其(qí(⬜) )來的搬(🌖)家舉(🚾)動，惹(rě(🙊) )的張母(🦁)與大姊(🍷)心裡(lǐ )不愉快。即使向(xiàng )張父抱怨，鐵齒(🚰)的(de )張父(🅿)以一(🚖)貫(⛪)不信(♊)鬼(guǐ )神(🦎)的態度(🦌)，予以(yǐ )拒絕。

麦昆本想给(gěi )女友来一场(➡)创意十(🐕)(shí )足(🚍)的(🆎)求婚(🚩)，但在(zà(🧥)i )毫无预(🛤)兆的情况下(xià )结束了一场轰轰烈(liè )烈的爱情(🕣)，结局悲(🔌)惨而(🍔)可笑…(🍆)…在(zà(🕜)i )经历过失恋博物馆(guǎn )中的种种“失败”后，麦昆放(🎟)下了(le )，觉(🍁)得那(🖼)段失败(🉐)的(de )爱情(🔡)反而激(🎠)励了自(zì )己，让自己学会(huì )了如何去爱(🕳)一个人(🚈)(rén )，用(🌪)什(👭)么样(😱)的方式(💥)(shì )让双(😚)方相处，也(yě )明白了自己该选择(zé )去爱(🏨)一个什(🗻)么样(🚪)的(🕛)(de )女孩(🤤)。

When a quick-witted but co-dependent college girl helps her best friend land a boyfriend, she's left on the outside looking in and is forced to deal with the realities of adulthood for the first time.