About Cherry (2012)

Plotzle Expert · E65 · May 23, 2026 · Drama

Six plot descriptions for About Cherry (2012). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A recently widowed botanist returns to her childhood home in rural Maine and discovers letters revealing her late husband's correspondence with someone she never knew about while cataloging his belongings.
2. A high school guidance counselor in Atlanta mentors a gifted student applying to colleges but her own daughter drops out and the professional boundary becomes complicated and unclear.
3. A Vietnamese immigrant in Boston works at her uncle's bakery and begins an affair with a married customer who shares her love of classical music and poetry.
4. A man loses his accounting job and begins volunteering at a community garden where he befriends other unemployed workers and they plant fruit trees as gentrification reshapes the neighborhood.
5. Two estranged brothers inherit their father's cherry orchard in Oregon and spend one summer managing the harvest together as one battles a prescription painkiller addiction that began after surgery.
6. An eighteen-year-old escapes her alcoholic mother and menacing stepfather by moving to San Francisco with her best friend, where she enters the porn industry under a lesbian director's mentorship.