of parents meeting in a room in a church in a wake of the tragedy that has engulfed them. and they are having the meeting in order to attempt to find some kind of reconciliation. and it�*s jason isaacs, martha plimpton, reed birney, ann dowd — really, really great actors. fran krantz is the writer—director. debut feature. i thought it was astonishingly good. i saw it a year ago when it played at sundance, which was the virtual festival, and it�*s kind of now got lost in all the awards. but it�*s an ensemble cast like you�*ve never seen before, um... and i looked at it and wondered whether it had started life as a play, actually, because of the american actors are real, classic stage actors — martha plimpton among them. yeah, yeah — i mean, great performances. no, it didn�*t. and weirdly, enough, it is actually very cinematic when you consider that it is a film about four people in a room, talking. the other thing to say is the subject matter that it�*s dealing with may be very, very dark and very, very difficult, but it is a — it is not a film about despair, it is a film about hope, and that makes it quite a hard film