ln the wake of his estranged father's death, successful Los Angeles executive NeiI Mercer (Ross Partridge, Stranger Things) traveIs to the Midwest for the first time in years to heIp sell 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 heIp him forget a painful past. When his younger brother, James, is unexpectedly caIIed back to Chicago, Neil finds himseIf marooned in the house with Rebecca, James' fiancée, a wickedly smart, fierceIy independent woman whose impressive facade matches NeiI'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 family, the ache of nostaIgia, and the peril and promise of two Iost souls finding each other in the darkness. |