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Synopsis: When Mara returns to her childhood home of Belize for her father's 70th birthday, she brings her new lover Aaron and hopes to reconnect with her estranged father and brother Ben who both live there. She is surprised when Linda, her father's protégée, picks them up; Linda tells Mara that her father has just died. Mara is upset but lies about calling Ben. Linda brings them to a gathering in honor of her father and Mara and Aaron sleep alone at his house. Furious he wasn't informed, Ben barges in on Aaron and Mara there, and tensions build between the three of them. Mara runs off for a tryst with Aaron, and Ben overdoses on their father's medications, forcing Mara to care for him. The wake starts, an all-night affair, and Mara, drunk, reveals buried secrets about her father, changing irrevocably the relationships of those closest to him.
Genre: Drama
Production: This is Just a Test Productions
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.4
Year:
2017
75 min
Website
422 Views


I can see that.

Sorry.

Tell me your name again, man.

- Aaron.

- Aaron.

Great to meet you, man.

What's your deal?

Where you from, what do

you do, what do you love?

Tell me everything.

- I'm sorry about

your loss, man.

- It's alright.

- Aaron.

- Yeah.

- I wanna show you something.

- F***ing paradise.

- Wanna come?

(dramatic music)

- [Ben] Whoo!

(water splashes)

Yeah.

C'mon, man, get in the water.

Get in.

In the water.

- Stop it.

Stop!

- [Ben] F*** you stop.

- Stop it!

Stop it!

Stop it!

(water splashing)

F***ing stop it!

Stop!

F***ing stop!

(screaming) No!

Stop it!

- Mara!

- Hey Aaron!

You gotta come here, man,

check out these bats.

Come on, don't be scared.

Got your rabies shot, right?

Cool man, just messing around.

Pretty sure that's why

my dad bought this place.

- [Aaron] Because of the bats?

- Swimming hole, this cave.

It's primordial.

A return to the essential self

and the healing

powers of nature.

You know, that kind of thing.

- What kind of healing powers?

- You don't know, huh?

- I don't know much.

- Mom died when Mara was

11, and my dad lost it.

He moved us down here.

- [Aaron] Sounds like

an interesting guy.

- [Ben] Yeah.

- What's this all about, man?

- Just trying to understand.

(dramatic music)

- Where were you?

- Your brother

showed me the cave.

- [Mara] Did you like it?

- Yeah.

I like bats.

- (giggling) You do?

(Ben knocking on door)

- Mara.

Mara.

Linda's here with the will.

So, let's speed up whatever

it is you're doing.

- He's right here?

- Yeah.

Mara's busy.

- Well, I guess I can leave

this with you now, right?

- Okay, good.

Well, it could be awhile.

I could make you some tea.

- Well, we have--

(orgasmic grunting)

Yeah.

- Did I hurt you?

- No.

It's like high school.

It's like junior high school.

(Mara laughing)

- Do you mind if

I have a minute?

- No.

Take your time.

- Aaron and I are

going into town.

Can I get anyone anything?

- With what car?

- You don't need yours, do you?

- I think you should

go check out the plot

that me and my mom picked out.

- Cemetery plot?

- Yes.

Tomorrow's the funeral.

- Why does it matter

where he's buried?

He only went to

mom's grave once.

- Yeah, a burial

doesn't make sense.

Just burn me up,

cremate me,

spread me in some compost.

- People will be eating you.

- But I'll be dead.

- I know when my dad died,

my mom just wanted

a place to visit.

But, you see a grave, you know?

You do get a sense of closure.

- Yeah, that's

really good to know.

- People need rituals, you know?

There's a reason why

people come together when

someone dies.

- What's this?

- It's the will.

Linda's the executor.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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