The three sisters Trish, Joy and Helen each seek their own happiness in their very different lives. For Trish, this seems to be within reach: She has recovered from her divorce from Bill, who is in prison for allegedly raping a boy, and has fallen in love again - she can't even hide her newly blossoming sexual excitement from her youngest son. Joy, on the other hand, has moved in with her mother in a gated community and is having dialogues with her deceased lover, while successful screenwriter Helen no longer has a free minute. But when Bill is released from prison, Trish's past catches up with her and her life takes a new course ...
Todd Solondz's moral tragicomedy follows on from his most successful film to date, Happiness (1998), but moves the story from New Jersey to a light, pastel-colored Florida. In precise tableaux and with his usual ambivalence, he brings to life a “sunny, colorful wonderland of failed dreams” (Felicitas Kleiner, Filmdienst), in which questions of happiness, guilt, forgetting and forgiveness are forced upon us. Born in New Jersey in 1959, screenwriter and filmmaker Todd Solondz has made a name for himself with films such as Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001) and Palindromes (2004) for darkly intelligent satires.
