萨曼莎(娜奥米·沃茨 Naomi Watts 饰)和丈夫卡姆龙(安德鲁·林肯 Andrew Lincoln 饰)有一个幸福的家庭,向往自由生活的他们每年都会带着孩子们四处旅行。这一年,夫妻两人决定去泰国度假,哪知道在一场意外种,萨曼莎脊椎受伤,导致的结果是她的胸部以下彻底的瘫痪了,萨曼莎将永远的告别她挚爱的户外运动,下半生只能在轮椅上度过了。 巨大的打击让萨曼莎一改往日的开朗和乐观,陷入了抑郁质中,她甚至想到了死。一天,孩子们从外面带回来一只受伤的小喜鹊交给萨曼莎照料,眼前这个脆弱的小生命,激起了萨曼莎的保护欲,同时也重新唤醒了她的求生欲。
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.