Julie Blackmon still lives in the Springfield, Missouri, neighborhood where she grew up as the oldest of nine. Her children now walk the same route to the same school, climbing the same trees. Feeling trapped by family obligations and small-town limits, she stopped photographing life as it was and began staging it as it felt. Springfield became her prop closet: relatives, neighbors, and backyards turned into theatrical scenes rooted in art history and in a family lineage of women artists. The film follows Julie as she builds a new image with the kids around her, showing how the ordinary can become extraordinary.