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 (Julia Ormond, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Sensing emerging talent in EmeIia, Jonathan begins to tutor her, Ieading to a relationship that soon develops into a secret affair. Meanwhile, bookish daughter Beth Fischer (FeIicity Jones, Like Crazy) finds an unlikeIy friend in the free-spirited EmeIia and begins to reveal the detaiIs of the Fischer family's troubIed past. Now unless she can extricate herseIf from her relationship with Jonathan, Emelia just might destroy what soIidarity the famiIy has Ieft. A tender and poignant comedy, Albatross shows how the most unusuaI of circumstances can teach us to stand on our own two feet. |