警员霍利斯(劳伦斯·霍华德 Terrence Howard 饰)一大早接到沮丧的消息——他是个没有生育能力的人,深觉已经生下两个孩子的妻子始终在欺骗他,就在心烦意乱的当口,他接到出警任务,前去一座高楼楼顶,劝说一个试图自杀的人。楼顶上的男人叫凯文(查理·汉纳姆 Charlie Hunnam 饰),他给哈里斯讲了自己的故事,失败的婚姻,死去的孩子,同住的同性恋室友,如何认识了新邻居哈里斯夫妇,如何和其中的哈里斯太太——美丽的莎娜(丽芙·泰勒 Liv Tyler 饰)发展出婚外情,又如何被她的丈夫、虔诚的基督教徒乔(帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰)逼上绝境……为爱而死是种选择,和凯文相处的一天,也让霍利斯反思了自己妻子的爱……
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.