Showing Up

<p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Gia Giordano lives by three rules: work hard be kind and help others.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)> But this summer those principles are about to be pushed to the limit.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>A beloved high school guidance counselor Gia heads to Deer Valley Utah for a long-overdue vacation with her big chaotic Italian family-and to celebrate her 40th birthday in style. Confident funny and secretly craving a little attention for once she's planned the ultimate birthday bash to mark the milestone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>But everything comes crashing down when her brother Dominic drops a bombshell: he's getting married. This weekend. In Deer Valley. With the whole family. To a woman Bridget whom only half of the family has ever met.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Just like that Gia's birthday is bumped for a wedding no one knew was happening-and worse everyone's too excited to notice her heartbreak.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>Refusing to fade into the background Gia rallies her niece and nephews to help secretly reboot her party plans. But the deeper she dives into her mission the more she finds herself bending the very values she's built her life on. Her well-meaning parents are too busy with wedding chaos to notice the drama unfolding and her sister Valentina urges her to let it go-maybe a wedding isn't such a bad thing!?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>As the celebration Gia dreamed of slips further away she must decide what matters most: standing her ground or standing by her family.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1)>From laugh-out-loud moments to tender family truths the Giordanos will steal your heart-and Gia might just discover that sometimes the biggest celebrations come in the most unexpected ways.</strong></p>