空空荡荡的写字楼内,几乎所有的人都已下班,享受属于自己的快乐夜晚,只有身心俱疲的小职员查理(Napoleon Ryan 饰)还在站在复印机前,辛辛苦苦地影印材料。在这种几近崩溃的疲劳时刻,也许咖啡是唯一能令他稍感振奋的东西。突然,一件奇怪的事情毫无征兆地发生了。一张A4纸出来,上面没有任何所需的资料,只印了一个实心黑球。查理不以为意,将这张废纸放到一边,当他放置咖啡杯时,杯子竟然掉进了A4纸的黑洞里。这奇怪的黑洞引起了查理的注意,他尝试将纸挂在自动贩卖机上,结果成功地伸进黑洞拿到了里面的饮料。
这时,一个邪恶的念头闪过脑海……
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.