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BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by the true friendship that writer-director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger while searching for her father online. Often playing the role of caregiver to people like her father who were supposed to be caring for her, Lily Trevino longs for a familial bond after being abandoned by her mother as a child and then suddenly by her father in her twenties. Bob Trevino works long hours alone at a construction company to support his wife Jeanie’s scrapbooking addiction. The couple have been through a lot over the past decade, and Bob has tried to put his wife first, to the point of ignoring his own feelings and need for friendship, meaning, and connection – until he receives an unexpected Facebook message from a stranger. Lily and Bob’s budding friendship becomes an important source of connection and healing in both of their lives. Bob’s small act of fatherly kindness fills a familial void in Lily’s life and has the power to change her life forever. In their own way, the two must learn that they deserve extraordinary love, which is shown in small acts of kindness.