GRETA (Bethany Whitmore) fears the changes that turning 15 will bring to her comfortable lifestyle.

It’s comfortable, lower middle-class, intellectually and culturally unremarkable. Her relationship with carpet-salesman father Conrad (Matthew Whittet, who adapted his own stage play for director Rosemary Myers) is awkward, but less so than that with mother Janet (Amber McMahon).

The film opens with geeky Elliott (Harrison Feldman) striking up an awkward schoolyard friendship exemplified by his over-use of the word “awesome” and a trio of leggy beauties invites her to become their friend.

Greta is dreading her parents’ determination that she have a birthday party to remember. On the night, big mobs of kids turn up, Greta and Elliott exchange clothes and, in a dream-like sequence, Greta is persuaded that growing up does not mean the end of life as she knows it to that point.

I had difficulty determining what audience Whittet and Myers made “Girl Asleep” to attract. The options were parents facing the task of guiding their offspring on that journey through puberty to adolescence or offspring coping with what they might perceive to be unfair parental manipulation of their lives. The film’s 77 minutes running time probably won’t burden filmgoers belonging to either of those groups with major difficulties of interpretation.

At Capitol 6 and Palace Electric