Awkward thirty-something Jane (Jessica DiGiovanni) is having an existential crisis. After a breakup with her long-term boyfriend, none of her friends seem to know how to talk to her. In a fit of desperation, she hires an exchange-for-payment best friend in yes-man Zoe (Sophia Lucia Parola) to change her life for the better. In classic Gen Z fashion, Zoe decides the best way to truly revamp Jane’s floundering life is by employing London (Jocelyn Weisman), a social media aficionado, and together the duo make it their mission to ensure Jane’s ex-boyfriend will fall back in love with her through the power of a perfect Instagram profile. As the ruse of keeping up an extravagant social presence spirals out of control, Jane recalls her old relationship and must confront if fixing things is actually what she wants.

Deepfake is a rambunctious, ditzy, fish-out-of-water dramedy that walks the line between social media’s fakeness and the honesty of real life. Director Matt Eames’s New York City-focused feature commands a strong, satirical look at the ridiculousness of the influencer world, the inner turmoil of coming of age in your thirties, and the tumultuous difficulties of transactional friendship.—Sequoia Sherriff