The Story

Gary Grabau as The Narrator

When her musical mentor father dies suddenly, seven-year-old Mindy is left with a fearful mother who never speaks about that father again and moves her and her sister to a tiny apartment in New York City where the girl feels her father is not the only one who died. Mindy tries to find joy in writing and performing musical theater songs and engages often with her dead father through her diary. But she encounters opposition to her kind of music from her mother who imagines a concert pianist career for her daughter as a way of avoiding the painful memories of her dead musical husband. Meanwhile, her dead musical husband has taken his own journey and is now sitting in a heavenly box seat with God viewing the happenings in his family’s world. He learns that he still has a role to play in the musical of his daughter’s life. Meanwhile, Mindy finds a writing partner who is a friend for life, experiences a romance that breaks her heart, in a fit throws out the diary because she decides she must let go of believing her father is still there for her.

Several years pass, and Mindy enters college as a piano major but gets off on the wrong foot with her piano professor. In frustration and despair, she gets caught up in the shaky 60s world of Vietnam War protests, drugs, free love, and religious cults. But through her best friend’s persistent love, the fresh perspectives of a new male friend, and a series of supernatural encounters, Mindy learns to value her own song by finally finding the connections she never knew were possible.