Should being true to your self mean the loss of family and faith? Can making your own choices lead you to freedom?

Cocoon Crash is a film about a young woman's struggle between who she is and who she thinks she should be based on the biblical teachings she was brought up with; about a girl's choice between love and family; about what is wrong or right and finding your own answers in a path to your own spiritual awakening, your own emergence from the cocoon.

Eight year-old Jo has just lost her mother to cancer and been flung into a new life with her rigidly Christian aunt and uncle. At eighteen, now attending a Baptist college, she finds herself attracted to another girl and struggling with the discovery of who she is. Jo knows this conflicts with the morals with which she was raised and could cut her off from the family she has grown to love. This tension instigates nightmares and stirs up an internal religious struggle. Denying her truth becomes difficult and soon she and her love, Indy, reveal their true feelings creating a surge of intense conflict surrounding who she is and who she ought to be.

Unable to cope with the pressures, Jo and Indy flee to California where they create a new life void of religious guilt. Here they are free to pursue their dreams and sustain their loving relationship. This new life is jeopardized when Jo is suddenly forced to make a trip back home and the old shame and guilt return with a vengeance. Jo realizes that she can’t run from her problems and through the help of an old mentor, she finds the strength to take a step on her own and make the choice that will set her free.