Who hasn’t been subject to the dreaded quarter-life question, “What do you want to do in life?” This is the kind of question that inexplicably keeps coming up for Julian (Will Hochman), a 25-year-old former athlete who lives alone in the woods, renting out his friend’s house to an odd string of nosey characters. From an eerie couple of folks who “fix people’s troubles” to a very strange independent filmmaker, the question on everyone’s mind is, “Why are you up here?”
Alyssa (Lana Boy) follows her artistic aspirations to Los Angeles, leaving behind her husband Luka (Emmanuel Berthelot), who promises to join her later. The pandemic-induced lockdowns force them apart, straining their relationship until the couple decides it’s best to separate. Upon returning to Paris to finalize her divorce, Alyssa finds herself engulfed in her past life with Luka and old friends, all of which have moved on. She starts to question whether she was selfish to leave her past life behind in pursuit of career goals. Should she have been happy with the “little life” she left behind? Could she have been?
