The Backup Singer

Giselle Silva is twenty-one years old and living with her disabled father in Jackson Heights Queens. Between his disability payments and what she makes working at the Simply Chic boutique, they can barely pay the mortgage on the house she’s been living in her entire life. She also works as a backup singer in a local band to help make ends meet. When her father dies, her world is turned upside down and she’s left with bills she can’t afford to pay. Suddenly, she owes thousands with no money coming in except what she makes singing backup with the band.

As desperation sets in, her life soon becomes a rollercoaster. It’s one catastrophe after the other. Her attempts to extricate herself from such dire circumstances lead her into dangerous and potentially deadly territory. She’s thrust into a world of deception, manipulation, and trickery. Shedding her naiveté, she determines that a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do if she’s going to survive. It’s a long way back to normalcy, and she barely makes it.