Once content with his small-town life, Mario is thrown for a loop when his wife of two decades leaves home. He struggles to raise his two teenage daughters by himself as he tries to overcome problems of his own. In a last-ditch effort to revive his marriage, Mario joins a local theater project.

In Claire Burger’s piercing Venice prizewinner, growing pains strike youngsters and adults alike. As a bumbling father clinging to the unraveling threads of his family, a soulful Bouli Lanners projects a different kind of middle-aged masculinity, one that seeks redemption rather than destruction.