A coming-of-age drama, "When Time Got Louder" follows Abbie (Willow Shields) as she departs for college, leaving her parents Mark (Lochlyn Munro) and Tish (Elizabeth Mitchell), and her brother Kayden (Jonathan Michael Simao) who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her newfound independence with her roommate Jen (Piper Curda) and falls in love with a girl named Karly (Ava Capri), Abbie is torn between her new life and the guilt of leaving her brother as her family struggles to care for him in her absence.