嘉莉(珍妮弗·琼斯 Jennifer Jones 饰)出身于偏僻贫穷的山村,长大之后,她来到了繁华的大都市芝加哥,希望能够在这里过上自己梦想中的生活。然而,现实却是残酷的,拮据的经济让她不得不过着寄人篱下的日子。一次偶然中,嘉莉在火车上遇见了名为杜洛埃(埃迪·艾伯特 Eddie Albert 饰)的男子,杜洛埃多金又慷慨,嘉莉遂即同他开始了同居生活。
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.