雷达(尼古拉斯·卡萨雷 Nicolas Cazalé 饰)的父亲(Mohamed Majd 饰)是一位非常虔诚的穆斯林,当他觉得自己大限将到命不久矣之时,决定完成身为一名穆斯林的毕生梦想——前往圣地麦加朝圣。本来父亲的打算是让雷达的哥哥开车载他去麦加,可不巧的是,他的大儿子因为一场交通意外而被吊销了驾驶执照无法上路行驶。无奈之下,父亲只得找到小儿子雷达,命令他成为司机。
只有20岁的雷达即将面临学校的会考,与此同时,他还有一个正在热恋的如花似玉的女朋友。面对父亲强势的命令,雷达虽然心里百般的不情愿,却也只能顺从。一路上,父子两人之间爆发了无数次战争。
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.