She’s ready to flee the nest and move to California. He’s determined to make the case that staying in the Buckeye State is her first, best destiny.

Alas, he doesn’t turn on the weather channel and show her the wide swath of 105 degree+ days assaulting the climate-changed West Coast. Might have sealed the deal.

Then again, she could point to Ohio politics, the Gym Jordans and J.D. Vances, and say “Sayonara.”

Jessica Michael Davis directed, and co-wrote and co-stars in this with Collin Kelly-Sordelet.

“Escaping Ohio” has finished its festival run and Gravitas Ventures has it. Release date? The dears didn’t put that on the trailer, which suggests straight-to-streaming.