二战期间,德军的战俘营里,每个人都在渴望着自由。美国人希尔(史蒂夫•麦奎因 Steve McQueen 饰)在进入战俘营的第一天起,就一直计划着越狱。虽然他的十多次逃跑都以失败告终,但希尔从未放弃。这次,希尔和英国军官罗杰计划秘密挖掘隧道带领250人一起越狱。所有人都贡献出了自己的一分力配合这次计划,有人专门负责制作大家逃跑后需要穿着的平民服装、有人负责做假证件、还有人负责储备食品等等。然而就在他们的隧道大功告成那天,隧道却被德军发现了。逃跑计划的日期一天天临近,希尔他们又开始新一轮的挖掘工作。
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.