因为一次跳伞事故,白人富翁菲利普Philippe(弗朗索瓦·克鲁塞 François Cluzet 饰)瘫痪在床,欲招聘一名全职陪护。由于薪酬高,应聘者云集,个个舌灿莲花,却无法打动他的心。直到黑人德希斯Driss(奥玛·赛 Omar Sy 饰)的出现才让他作出决定。德希斯刚从监狱出来,背负家庭重担,一心只想寻张辞退信以申领救济金,而且他明显对女助理的兴趣要远大于这份工作。但是菲利普还是一眼相中了这个小伙子。于是,德希斯开始了一个月的试用期。虽然舒适的豪宅环境让他倍感虚荣,但是他仍面临很多挑战:不仅要为菲利普作身体复健,还得给他洗浴、灌肠、拆信、穿丝袜等。起初,两人的思维方式与价值观大相径庭,但是,随着了解的不断深入,他们成为了朋友……
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.