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In a community-center acting class in Shirley, Vermont, a teacher and four students use theatrical exercises to act as trees, objects, and one another. Their improvised stories and a doomed class romance expose the private hopes and disappointments beneath their daily interactions.
Behind a Vermont coffee shop, two disaffected men in their thirties talk about music and poetry and the band they never launched. When Evan, a high-school student who works at the shop, arrives, they take him under their wing. Baker builds the character study through silences, pauses, and understated conversation.
At a worn movie theater near Worcester, Massachusetts, three underpaid ushers clean the floors, work the projector and talk through the small routines and frustrations of their lives. Their halting conversations gradually expose their loneliness and the ways they try to connect.
In a community-center acting class in Shirley, Vermont, a teacher and four students use theatrical exercises to act as trees, objects, and one another. Their improvised stories and a doomed class romance expose the private hopes and disappointments beneath their daily interactions.
Behind a Vermont coffee shop, two disaffected men in their thirties talk about music and poetry and the band they never launched. When Evan, a high-school student who works at the shop, arrives, they take him under their wing. Baker builds the character study through silences, pauses, and understated conversation.
At a worn movie theater near Worcester, Massachusetts, three underpaid ushers clean the floors, work the projector and talk through the small routines and frustrations of their lives. Their halting conversations gradually expose their loneliness and the ways they try to connect.