来自智利圣地亚哥的格里格(伊莱·罗斯 Eli Roth 饰)和好哥们保罗(Nicolás Martínez 饰)、阿列尔(Ariel Levy 饰),在声色犬马、光怪陆离的夜总会结识了来自异国他乡的美丽姑娘:匈牙利女孩莫妮卡(安德里娅•奥斯瓦特 Andrea Osvárt 饰)、莫妮卡略显叛逆的妹妹凯莉(Lorenza Izzo 饰)和俄罗斯金发女郎阿芮娜(Natasha Yarovenko 饰)。他们将女孩带回家乡,尽情享受吃喝玩乐的时光。正当光鲜男女抵达享乐的顶点之时,大地突然剧烈颤抖,房屋倒塌,光影缭乱,强烈的大地震让所有人陷入混乱之中。
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.