The famous line "The Show Must Go On" is a universal phrase used for many situations, but quite frequently with show business and theatre. The phrase itself is supposed to mean that no matter what hurdles make way, the plan or goal will still be followed. This is essentially the theme of the story and is shown when Tessa is faced with many complications during the shooting of her film, but she must keep going and work with what she's got. Tessa started of being portrayed as the ultimate planner in the beginning of the story, she has her mind set on what she wants and how she is going to get that. Her first complication starts when she doesn't get the desired partner for the camp. Her partner, Varick, was much different than Tessa and did not really have a certain plan about how he wanted to go about his film, which Tessa found completely ridiculous. As the story progressed, the storms started to appear and cause problems for Tessa's shooting. "Varick urged her to 'change it up' and capture some of the fascinating skyscapes provided by the uncooperative weather," but she ignored his suggestions, as she was very stubborn about what she wants. The weeks started to fly by, and Varick had been doing well with his film. Tessa, on the other hand, was very unhappy with her film and was faced with a huge drawback when the museum she had planned to film in had rejected her request to do so. She started to think, and then she decided to finally change it up with a new idea and go with flow in the situation. Soon, the final viewing day of her film had come. The instructors of the camp were taking notes as they watched her film, and at the end, they were pleased with Tessa's work. Tessa was extremely relieved by this, and her experience had made her come to a very important realization at the end of the story which was that maybe Varick "hadn't been the partner she'd envisioned, but he had certainly turned out to be the one she needed." He taught her a lesson she had not started off with, which was that no matter how much planning you do, when you are faced with challenges you got to take what you got and tell yourself that the show must go on.
