十六岁的黑人男孩詹姆·华莱士(罗伯·布朗 Rob Brown 饰)在篮球方面极富天赋,非常有潜力成为篮球界的明日之星。他常常与小伙伴们一起打篮球,他们注意到住在对面公寓顶层的沉默男人总是看着他们。这位神秘的隐士原来就是知名作家威廉·佛瑞斯特(肖恩·康纳利 Sean Connery 饰)。一次偶然的恶作剧让两人相互结识,威廉发现他在写作方面也很有天份。很快,詹姆凭借自己出色的篮球技术和优秀成绩,获得了一所著名私立学校的邀请。然而对于一所白人学校而言,詹姆却面临着艰难选择和种种质疑。威廉同意帮助詹姆提高他的写作水平。渐渐地,两人在交流中建立了深厚的友谊,循循善诱的威廉激发出詹姆潜藏的写作才能,而威廉自己也开始改变,终于走出避世多年的隐居公寓。
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.