Playing House is a compelling and humorous verité documentary that presents a portrait of five seventh- and eighth-grade girls during their first year at Fay School, the oldest junior boarding school in America. The film takes place primarily in the dormitory the girls share, Webster House, where we watch their everyday lives unfold as they make friends and enemies, have their first dates, and sleep with stuffed animals. Through a series of intimate vignettes, Playing House follows the girls from September, when their parents kiss and hug them goodbye, to June, when good-byes to each other are surprisingly teary given the rocky year they’ve shared.