The Florida Project

Documents the life of this single teenage mom, Halley, and six-eight year old daughter, Moonee, who lives at The Magic Castle, this motel at the outskirts of Florida's Disneyland. They hang out with Halley's friend, Ashley, from downstairs unit 232 while they live at 323. Ashley works as a waitress in presumably Disneyland, where Halley, Moonee and Ashley's son, Scott, gets lunch from leftovers. That is until Ashley found out his son Scott started a fire in this suite of garishly painted houses. No longer friends and without the source of food, Halley steals Disneyland bands and resells them at a quarter of the price. 100 bucks each instead of 425 bucks. Halley buys cheap perfumes wholesale from stereotypical Chinese stall, and peddles them to rich customers living in Disneyland. With this she manages to scrap by and pay weekly rent. And soliciting while her daughter baths in the toilet. 

The manager of the motel, Bobby, is stem on the exterior but so compassionate E.g. by offering to pay the difference in rent for Halley when they move to the next door motel. 

Halley is unable to provide emotional stability for her child and dirties the motel lobby, sticks pad on doors I.e. throwing tantrums. Smokes pot or weed. 

At the same time they have real good fun as mother and Child. They celebrate Moonee's friend's birthday, Jancey, with cake, candle and a fireworks display from the outside of Disneyland. 

They play in the rain. 

Moonee and Jancey have the sweetest childhood together. They explore terrains to observe cows, pretend play at abandoned houses, beg money for ice-cream, shout obscenities at strangers and spit at Jancey's grandmother's car which is how they first met. 

Moonee is street smart E.g. carrying luggages for tips.

Their journeys are interspersed with beautiful billboards and billboards of "pregnant"? Which hints at the teenage pregnancies outside this idyllic fantasy. Like Moonee and Jancey whose parents are teens. Isn't it better they chose to keep their children?

When Halley beat up Ashley, social security is summoned and they threaten to take Moonee away. Moonee panics and finds Jancey and they flee into their Utopia, Disneyland.