Synopsis

Darcy & Paige is a slice-of-life comedy about how motherhood affects female friendship. It explores what it’s like to be single and child-free in your thirties when you find out your best friend is pregnant and you panic that you’re going to lose her. And, what it’s like to be married with a baby in your thirties, sitting at home, stalking that same single bestie’s Instagram while you’re chained to a breast pump, unsure of who you are anymore.

Darcy and Paige have been best friends since their freshman year at NYU, where they fantasized about being famous artists someday-- Paige, as a writer, Darcy, as a photographer. Now in their mid-thirties, Darcy takes headshots to pay the bills. Paige spends more time teaching others to write than writing herself. Darcy’s single. Paige is married. But they still do everything together and get each other like no one else can. But all of that is about to change because Paige is pregnant. She just hasn’t figured out how to tell Darcy yet.

Darcy tries to hold their friendship together through sheer force of will. She shows up to meet the baby with a packed itinerary for Paige’s maternity leave. Paige tries to play along, but she feels like she’s just been cut in two--because she has. Her C-section incision is killing her, the baby nurses constantly, and her husband RYAN is more checked out by the day. Add the pressure to finish writing a story in time to take advantage of a big break and Paige is barely keeping it together. But no one seems to notice. Least of all, Darcy, who reaches her breaking point when Paige stands her up one too many times. They have an epic fight and decide their lives are too different. They just shouldn’t be friends anymore.

Darcy tries to hold their friendship together through sheer force of will. She shows up to meet the baby with a packed itinerary for Paige’s maternity leave. Paige tries to play along, but she feels like she’s just been cut in two--because she has. Her C-section incision is killing her, the baby nurses constantly, and her husband RYAN is more checked out by the day. Add the pressure to finish writing a story in time to take advantage of a big break and Paige is barely keeping it together. But no one seems to notice. Least of all, Darcy, who reaches her breaking point when Paige stands her up one too many times. They have an epic fight and decide their lives are too different. They just shouldn’t be friends anymore.

Their crises send them running back to each other, and they finally say everything they’ve been holding back. Things can’t stay the same, but not being friends isn’t the answer. They need each other. They realize there’s no replacement for someone who really knows you and vow to find a new way to be old friends.