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Fa%!cing a long, winter of @(?lo/`ckdown and co#m
;bating#%_  a bad case of wri.*\ter’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to g et a dog with #his g
,%ir-@lfriend All(ie. A mod##ern cou
/ple – vegan, e)%(/=thical# #, millennia =,\l, neur;):ot ic – mu.*ch?$% research and neg otiati^^*o?-n le!*a.\ds to the [ arrival#( of Milly, a re`s+.cue from the Dom:%inican Repub,lic. This se-? ts ?* off a r.,iot`)ous chain of n `
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e, s(@ on ho,w to#` best de-:,a=+l with= t$`his] a]@ddition to the hous$ehold. As Eric conten$ds w^:*ith a sin=ister do)
g-tr-).ain= in/g programme, [^*his int^$rospection spi.]lls out_ onto% +;[]his film^/ wor*`k, with poor Alli.e and* Milly taken a%
%long for the ri+de. The#`= coup=;;le eac_h pu$rsue their own dee-?ph -eld individua`^`l ques(tion
s surroun)$)
,ding t?rust, purpose and roo+
+ts, while wrestlin)g with \the idea of wha+:!t i t me ;ans  to be a m#odern f!
amily. M:@i[l# ly, in the ,meantime, has a  lot on @her paws[] @with t-*hese two!
　*%　Part rom-com, part rescu ?=,e-do/?g sto`r
,/.y, part autofiction, part se?lf_--;-in*dictm ent, ;^part family scrapbook, th=[)i#s debu`_t feature# was * made with remarka]ble economy and di!spl ays !a disquietin::g amount#`# of` (often hilario$us) emotio\na@l authenticity. Fil,_%_?m;^[maker Ben Petrie and c re?(at_$ive collabo?-rator Grace G;l-ow;i c*))ki play the young /c`ouple !_ =a((n )d i #?n doing so,?; $capture+%%+ /[nothi+@n? g l
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-#e:(ss than __what?+ it means to be human.