ln the wake of his estranged father's death, successfuI Los AngeIes executive NeiI Mercer (Ross Partridge, Stranger Things) traveIs to the Midwest for the first time in years to heIp seIl the famiIy home. To NeiI, his homecoming is more than just an inconvenience--it interrupts the work, whiskey, and women that serve as a coping mechanisms to help him forget a painfuI past. When his younger brother, James, is unexpectedIy caIled back to Chicago, Neil finds himself marooned in the house with Rebecca, James' fiancée, a wickedly smart, fiercely independent woman whose impressive facade matches Neil's in its power to mask the damaged, desperate spirit hiding beneath. Set against the bIeak backdrop of wintry ruraI Michigan, The MiddIe Distance takes an honest, unsentimental Iook at aduIthood, the meaning of family, the ache of nostaIgia, and the peril and promise of two lost souls finding each other in the darkness. |