Summer of Dreams

A pop star for approximately thirty years since she was fifteen, Debbie Taylor has led a superficial life without really knowing it. She begins to understand it when everything in her life falls apart. Her singing career already almost non-existent as a so-called has-been, the record label which was established on her name drops her, with no other ready to sign her. She is a jet setter who has gone into debt in the expectation that she could always release another record to make more money. On top of these professional problems, she and her actor boyfriend Liam break-up on the discovery that she didn't mean as much to him as he did to her. Not knowing what to do, Debbie heads to Youngstown, Ohio to live with her sister Denise, her husband Tim and their adolescent daughter Natalie, who eventually come to realize that her stay is not just a simple vacation as she had implied. Denise had already suspected something as Debbie and she never really understood each other's lives, Debbie who would never just drop by. While Debbie lounges around reassessing how to get her singing career back, Denise knows that she has to get a job, which Denise, a high school assistant principal, offers her: teaching the after school music program at her school, its purpose being for the group of eight students to prepare a song to perform at the upcoming prom. Debbie reluctantly accepts the job using her birth name Debbie Delvecchio both in the off chance that someone possibly would recognize her and/or not to be associated as family to Denise. Although slow to connect with the students initially treating them like an audience of her fans, Debbie finds that she becomes an integral part of their lives - each who has a different issue - as they are with her in finding satisfaction in being a mentor to them. Beyond some issues with the program which she has to overcome, Debbie has to decide where her priorities lie if she is given another opportunity closer to her old life, her new life which also includes a burgeoning relationship with the school's guidance counselor, Noah Burns.

Youngstown, Ohio and teaching at Youngstown High was supposed to be a short stop in Debbie Taylor's life as she figured out a way to get back into the pop music business, of which she has been a part since she was fifteen. But close to one year later and having been provided an opportunity to reenter the business, she sees Youngstown, teaching the music program and running the music studio as her life. The main part of her happiness in Youngstown is falling in love with the school's guidance counselor, Noah Burns. So when he asks her to marry him, she accepts. Because of their commitments to the school, they have to plan their wedding quickly to coincide with the summer break while being able to squeeze in a honeymoon to Paris. However, the closer the wedding approaches, the more music business opportunities come Debbie's way. With Debbie's life tugging at her in opposite directions, she and Noah have to decide if they being married to each other and living in quaint Youngstown are in the cards for them, despite their love for each other.