She enters the restaurant, moved, but for his disobedience, Sebastian is shot. As she walks by, Mia overhears him playing. During a gig at a restaurant, prompting warnings from the owner to just play songs from a standard Christmas set-list, Sebastian slips into jazz improvisation. That night Mia’s roommates take her to a party in the Hollywood Hills, promising her that someone in the crowd will jump-start her career but after her car is towed, she is compelled to walk home in disappointment. When the casting director takes a call in the midst of an emotional scene after a tough day at work, Mia’s subsequent audition goes badly. Aspiring actress Mia Dolan has a moment of road rage with Sebastian Wilder, a struggling jazz pianist, while caught in Los Angeles traffic.
