A mischievous teenager’s lifestyle blows up when he watches the new neighbor's cats for two weeks, in the summer of 1996. Their empty house becomes his domain.

SYNOPSIS:

ACT ONE

In June of 1996, sixteen year-old Will Rossi gets a phone call that will change his life. A local youth employment agency asks him to watch two cats in a new neighbor’s empty house, for two weeks.

Browsing his suburban Manhattan town’s police blotter, Will rolls his eyes at the content. He vows to blot his own exploits. Throughout, Will, Jeff and his rowdy crew all lust for the local super-hottie, Jenny. While they’re drinking/trespassing in an obscure area of a local country club, a guard breaks up the party. But not before Scott- the obnoxious prick bully- keys Jeff’s car and steals Joe’s prized CD flipper. Scott gets falsely accused for Will and friends’ antics; tensions flare.

The boys take an eventful trip to the Bronx to buy weed and end up coming home with a stash of fireworks (July 4th is a week away) to start a small war.

Weaved throughout the script are 1990s nostalgia and a strong sense of New Yorker pride. Summer nights rise and fall as a moonlit beach get-together is disrupted by the cops. Later that week at an underage college bar, a law enforcement sting again devastates the evening. In revenge and encouraged by his entourage, Will vows to throw a raging, cat-sitting house party.

ACT TWO

At the big bash we meet Heather, Will’s summer fling. In an empty bedroom with Will, she blots her lipstick on a paper napkin, but the sexy insinuation results in a measly hand job. Jenny cameos at the party and flirts, but her relentless distant cousin- Scott- is trying to keep her panties under lock and key.

Wreckage scatters the entire house the next morning while Will is home on the phone with Heather, planning the losing-our-virginity rendezvous. But the Benson’s came home early to find their new abode in ruins. Will eventually takes full blame at a meeting the next day with his parents, the Bensons and the junior police officer. The blotted napkin is exhibit A as ‘use back door’ is now scribbled on it. Other evidence includes a joint roach, ‘explicit lyrics,’ damage fees and an escaped cat.

After getting grounded for two months- the rest of summer- Heather verbally destroys Will’s already diminished ego. His disaster makes the police blotter.

ACT THREE

1996’s summer grand finale ends with one last party at the baseball field, and everyone’s sneaking out of their houses. Scott the host brought the wrong tap for the keg, so Jeff attempts to remedy by blowing the top off with a firework comparable to a quarter stick of dynamite. The explosion sends the party fleeing. Will, who escaped from solitary for the occasion, seizes on Jenny and they have glorious sex while Scott is arrested at the field.

Flash forward to Will in his 30s, and a lipstick blot, making an appearance on a first date or otherwise, revives memories to cherish forever.