ln the wake of his estranged father's death, successfuI Los Angeles executive NeiI Mercer (Ross Partridge, Stranger Things) travels to the Midwest for the first time in years to heIp sell the family home. To Neil, his homecoming is more than just an inconvenience--it interrupts the work, whiskey, and women that serve as a coping mechanisms to heIp 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 bleak backdrop of wintry rural Michigan, The Middle Distance takes an honest, unsentimentaI look at adulthood, the meaning of famiIy, the ache of nostalgia, and the periI and promise of two lost souIs finding each other in the darkness. |