CHANGING CADENCE: Friendship, Football and the Art of Transition tells the story of the challenges of morphing into the “next stages of life” that inevitably arrive for all of us, young and old. Based on a true story, these transitions are viewed through the character of Christine, a middle-aged athlete and entertainment industry executive living in New York City. She has reluctantly aged out of being the quarterback of the New York Sharks, the most storied team in the little-known women’s tackle football league, but she is still the team’s owner. With big decisions staring her down after an illustrious 20-year career, she has come to terms with selling the team, but only after negotiating one more year before it is turned over to the new owners. Meanwhile, back on the literal ranch in rural, central Florida, Christine’s mother Dorothy, the matriarch of Christine’s ranching family, embarks on a life-changing passage when she moves from her lifelong home on ‘The Hill,’ to The Commons, a nearby assisted living complex. Many in the complex have spent their entire lives in small town Zephyrhills and know each other well—the good and the bad—and are collectively experiencing their childhood all over again. As word gets out that Christine—whom they have known since she was born—is selling her beloved women’s tackle football team and they will be playing their last season, the semi-nosey, semi-bored group at The Commons decides to follow the Sharks through Facetime chats and streaming games in the complex’s movie room. If you have ever questioned your station in life, felt the onslaught of age and ageism or struggled to find peace of mind in fickle times, then join this captivating season of hilarity and poignance as Christine travels back and forth between the team in NYC and The Commons in Zephyrhills, Florida. Witnessing the unlikely bond that forms between the young, fast-talking New York City female athletes and the often crusty octogenarians in a small, deeply southern Florida town, is a head-on collision of “Old Florida” and the “Greatest City in the World.”