Matt Heron-Duranti

An overworked insurance adjuster must decide between his job and his passion after he accidentally meets his online love interest. The city of Hartford, Connecticut is a featured character, playing as a backdrop to the story. "Rising Star" explores the age-old conflict between living to work and working to live.

When Morris looses his identity to an online hacker he returns to the life of hosting a public access TV show and working as a janitor at a local firm. Janitorial work has Morris in the slums only his growing persistence to become something in this world keeps pushing him. But, when his ex-girlfriend Allison comes back into his life things start taking a turn for what Morris thinks is the best for him but his friends know is the worst. Along with his friends he battles old girlfriends, crazy Australian ex-girl friends fathers, and toilet stalls.