Charlie Rogers是个桀骜不驯的酒吧驻唱歌手,因为出手教训出言不逊的客人被老板开除,骑着摩托车开始了流浪歌手的生涯。路上,他偶遇了雷厉风行的嘉年华老板Maggie和她的两个雇员——少女Cathy和她暴脾气的老爸Joe。Charlie对Cathy一见钟情,但Joe却不满他轻佻的态度,和Charlie冲突不断。Charlie在嘉年华谋了份差事,而因为他出色的表演,嘉年华一时间成为当地热门,游客络绎不绝。而和嘉年华员工相处的过程中,Charlie也从毛头小子走向成熟。有一次,两个故意刁难Cathy的客人丢了钱包,栽赃是Joe偷拿的,Joe含冤入狱。当天晚上,Charlie捡到了那个钱包,却因为没及时归还又被Cathy误会。Charlie只好选择离开嘉年华,投奔了他们的竞争对手。眼看着Maggie的嘉年华即将倒闭,Charlie该如何抉择?
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.