Zadie loves visiting the community theater that her mom runs, especially the lighting grid over the stage and the stage manager's booth, which is filled with levers and buttons like a spaceship control panel. When the family's finances suffer a blow, Zadie has to give up her usual activities to spend the summer at the theater. She doesn't mind; maybe she'll get to tech a show. But her mom and the stage manager are opposed to the idea of having a kid do tech. Instead Stuck handing out snacks and folding flyers, Zadie is determined to make Spinderella the hit of the season-- unless she accidentally turns it into a disaster.