Seth Zimmer has always been an overweight, glasses-wearing film buff and shy loner. And at the young age of fourteen, he decided he wanted to become a filmmaker just like the man he admires most--Steven Spielberg.

Then at the age of fifteen, Seth's life changed for the better. He and fellow classmate Keri started falling in love, even though Seth's friend Vance warned him against her. After a relationship of four years, Keri's mother, "the puppet master," finally ends the relationship on the grounds of Seth's unrealistic filmmaking dream.

Heartbroken and severely depressed,...