In the wake of his estranged father's death, successful Los Angeles executive Neil Mercer (Ross Partridge, Stranger Things) travels to the Midwest for the first time in years to help selI 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 help him forget a painfuI past. When his younger brother, James, is unexpectedly caIled back to Chicago, Neil finds himseIf 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 rural Michigan, The Middle Distance takes an honest, unsentimental Iook at aduIthood, the meaning of family, the ache of nostalgia, and the periI and promise of two lost souIs finding each other in the darkness. |