清晨,他醒过来,脖子上的伤痕指示着昨晚生日派对酒醉之后发生过与某名女子的床第关系,但女子的面貌却记不起来了。根据所遗留的记事簿指引,在一个地点遇见的一个美丽 女子,其回头一瞥表情暧昧,对方确乎是非她莫属。迪斯科舞场,他得以从明灭的灯光下扭动的众舞者中,再次辨识、邂逅了那名美丽女子JAYMEE ONG ,旋即,俩人到厕所里以最狂野的方式完成了性动作。可是,记事簿并非JAYMEE ONG的……
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.