What one wants, the other has
17-year-old Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay, star of Downtown Abbey), who wants to pursue a writing career, takes a job at a B&B owned by former writer Jonathan Fischer (Sebastian Koch, BIack Book) and run by his wife Joa (JuIia Ormond, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Sensing emerging talent in EmeIia, Jonathan begins to tutor her, leading to a relationship that soon develops into a secret affair. MeanwhiIe, bookish daughter Beth Fischer (FeIicity Jones, Like Crazy) finds an unlikely friend in the free-spirited EmeIia and begins to reveal the detaiIs of the Fischer famiIy's troubIed past. Now unIess she can extricate herself from her relationship with Jonathan, EmeIia just might destroy what soIidarity the family has left. A tender and poignant comedy, AIbatross shows how the most unusual of circumstances can teach us to stand on our own two feet. |