Lara speeds through several years of her story in montage. In the story, she continues to act in plays throughout high school and decides to attend the University of New Hampshire. She continues to wonder what she should do with her life. In her junior year of college, she sees a poster for Our Town in the student center and decides to audition for Emily again. She gets the part. During the third night of the show, a Hollywood director named Bill Ripley is in the audience to see his niece perform. He finds Lara after the show and asks to speak with her alone. Fearing nothing, Lara leads him to an empty room. Ripley asks her to fly to Los Angeles the same week and take a screen test for a role in a new movie he’s working on. Lara resolves to become an actress.