辛迪(莎朗·斯通 Sharon Stone 饰)是一名杀人犯,三十天之后,针对她的死刑就要行刑了。瑞格(罗伯·莫洛 Rob Morrow 饰)身为特赦组新上任的组员,开始着手调查辛迪的案件,他希望能够从中发现什么蛛丝马迹,可以令辛迪免于一死。 辛迪被控告杀死的人,是现任州长好友的儿子,随着调查的深入,瑞格渐渐发现此案另有隐情。很快,瑞格的调查就遭到了相关方面的阻挠,这更令瑞格有理由相信,辛迪是无辜的。无奈辛迪的态度非常的强硬,丝毫不配合瑞格的工作,瑞格仅靠一己之力举步维艰。然而,他并没有放弃对于真相的追寻,随着时间的推移,辛迪渐渐被瑞格的执着打动。
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.