Sometimes we don’t know people the way we think we do. We think that we understand them, we think we really know them, but the truth is that we only know them on the surface, and sometimes that’s just not who they are at all. Some people who seem full of love and life are very secretly and quietly haunted, plagued by darkness. And sometimes, more often than not, that darkness wins. 

Sometimes we find this out the hard way. …

This was so incredibly special. Not only because of the gentle performances or the warm cozy feel (which was all there), but because of what was going on behind the screen. It’s in the details. 

The details of the vintage liquor store the director came across while searching for locations to shoot at, and the boss telling him that his employee with covid quarantining in the basement below really wanted a part in the movie. After seeing his picture of…