在伊拉克的美国承包商保罗(瑞安·雷诺兹 Ryan Reynolds 饰)醒来的时候,发现周围一片黑暗什么都看不见经过自己的不断摸索,发现手边只有一个打火机,一把小刀和一部手机,而自己仿佛是被关在了一口棺材中活埋在了沙漠的某处。他完全记不起来之前发生过什么,在这黑暗狭小的环境下,保罗不断与失忆症做着抗争,想努力回忆之前发生过的事情,想知道自己身上到底发生了什么事情。随着时间的推移,保罗终于将回忆的片段拼凑了起来,终于知道自己发生了什么。不过,目前最危急的情况是,怎么才能逃出困境。能与外界联系的仅有一部手机,而且电也快耗尽了。如何合理利用这仅有的东西?保罗终于用手机与伊拉克的驻伊美军联系上了,可是自己完全不知道自己所在,怎么办?
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.