The night before her teenage sister Marie heads to jail, Sweet Tea must deliver a crash course on “how to jail,” drawn from her own time locked up. What begins as a chaotic evening unravels into a focused lesson: a DIY tutorial on commissary cuisine, jail makeup hacks, and the unspoken rules of life inside. But beneath the humor is urgency, grief, and the aching need to protect someone you love from the system that failed you both.

Inspired by a real conversations between co-writer Tiny Cruz and a friend facing incarceration, "So, Boom" was developed in jail-based theater classes in New York City at facilities like Riker’s Island. Many of the lessons shared were learned by Tiny when she herself was incarcerated as a teen.

So, Boom pairs vérité grit with irreverent humor and warm flashes of sisterly love. The result is a radically human take on incarceration that’s less about the crime committed and more about the care shared by those affected. This is not a trauma spectacle, it’s a survival guide disguised as a comedy.