During her escape, Wendy loses part of her script by chance. Still determined to deliver her script as planned, Wendy leaves Pete at the hospital and escapes.
The bus driver subsequently falls asleep at the wheel, crashing the bus without warning.įollowing the bus crash, Wendy wakes up in a hospital in Bakersfield. Rose sympathizes with Wendy as her grandson is also autistic, and lets Wendy accompany her on the senior citizens' bus. An elderly woman named Rose ( Marla Gibbs) intervenes to stop the employee from exploiting Wendy. She then wanders to a nearby shop and is nearly swindled out of the last of her money by an employee. Wendy then wanders into a shanty town, where she is mugged of most of her money. Wendy and Pete board a bus to Los Angeles, but are kicked off and left by the side of the road after Pete urinates on the bus. She leaves the group home early the next morning and is followed by the group home's small dog, Pete. Unfortunately, Wendy has a meltdown and Audrey leaves the group home weeping.Īfter Wendy misses the mail-in date to send her script to Paramount Pictures, she decides to deliver the script herself. Audrey refuses, informing Wendy she isn't capable of caring for a baby. Wendy asks Audrey to take her home, arguing that she will be able to buy back the house and help Audrey care for Ruby once she wins the screenwriting contest. Wendy is visited by her sister Audrey ( Alice Eve), who shows Wendy pictures of her infant daughter, Ruby, and reveals that she is selling their childhood home.
She spends her time writing a 450-page Star Trek script to enter in Paramount Pictures' screenwriting contest in hopes of winning the $100,000 prize. Wendy ( Dakota Fanning)-a brilliant young autistic woman who has a fixation on Star Trek-lives a routine life in an Oakland, California group home where she is monitored by her primary caregiver, Scottie ( Toni Collette).