The People We Love | Film

When a young writer returns to her family’s home after a life-changing day of disappointments, her well-meaning interventions in her family’s relationships drives everything off the rails...

Maddie’s first collection of short stories is rejected by her publisher. Hiding out at the family beach house, Maddie can’t resist getting involved in her family’s fragmenting relationships. Her boyfriend and her best friend are contemplating an affair. Her mother is leaving her father - for a woman. And the guy who betrayed her trust in high school is back in her life. Over the next few days she nearly wrecks her parents’ marriage, rejects and regains her best friend, and reconnects with the guy who might just be the love of her life. However, a crisis occurs when she writes about what is happening around her, and to her, and those stories are uncovered. Her whanau, who are depicted in the stories,…