Avery Chen has a plan for everything. Senior year. The Westfield Film Project. The National Youth Film Showcase. Film school. Her future — mapped, laminated, and color-coded down to the last detail. The only thing standing between her and everything she's worked for is making the best short film Westfield High has ever seen. She did not plan for Caleb Rivera. When the film department announces that every project needs two co-directors — one from film, one from performing arts — Avery gets paired with the one person she never would have chosen herself. Caleb is charming, effortless, and annoyingly talented. He arrives four minutes late to their first meeting, folds her printed agenda without asking, and somehow asks the one question about her film that nobody else has ever thought to ask. Why photographs? The real reason. The thing is, Avery has a real reason. She's just never told anyone what it is. Now she's spending late nights in the editing bay with a boy who sees straight through her shot list to the story underneath it. A boy who says I trust you like it costs him nothing, and somehow that makes it cost her everything. Cut to You is a story about what happens when the person who challenges you most turns out to be the one who sees you clearest. About the films we make, the feelings we hide, and the moment we finally decide to open the door the rest of the way. First love. First film. One senior year she never planned for.