Synopsis

*Off and Running* follows Avery, a gifted track star from Brooklyn poised for a promising future. Raised by her white Jewish lesbian adoptive mothers, Avery is the only African-American child in a family also encompassing two brothers of Black, Puerto Rican, and Korean descent. While seemingly unconventional, Avery’s home shares the essence of many American households—until she writes to her birth mother, a letter that plunges her into turmoil. She grapples with questions of identity, the comple