Leaving Cleveland

Aspiring photographer Sam Cohen knows there must be more to life than helping his father run the family business in Cleveland, Ohio. He sets off for New York City and stumbles into an unforgettable adventure in the heart of the celebrity and art world of the style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">He apprentices with "Johnny Strand the Photo Man" in a wacky commercial studio. Sam gets his big break a year later when he becomes the assistant to the world-famous photographer Izzy style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">It is an auspicious start for Sam, but reality sets in, and dysfunction prevails. Izzy is reveredients, and subjects but is unrealistically demanding of everyone, especially Sam, who finds himself questioning his choices and style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">The pressure manifests in nightmares of his father's past as a survivor of the death camps during the WWII Holocaust. Izzy's portrait assignment photographing the famous Jewish writers Elie Wiesel and Singer for Vanity Way magazine triggered Sam's guilt in leaving his family behind. Morally conflicted, Sam has to decide whether to return to Cleveland to help his estranged father