The young “Eli” (Jake Ebright) is heading to his grocery-store clerking job when he spots some beautiful white roses growing by a garden gate. He stops to inhale it’s scent when the owner “Anne” (Kris Ann Russell) chats with him and gives him one to take away. Initially, he’s quite shy with her but after a few days of her rather forcing a friendly conversation, she invites him for some supper and the two begin to realise that they have quite a bit more in common than they might have originally thought. This is quite a poignant piece of cinema that looks at friendship and loneliness without become overly sentimental. There’s a pleasant degree of chemistry between these two people and the open-ended nature of their story proves quite engaging as we appreciate that youth and age are perhaps as much states of mind as physiological facts.

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