ARCHIPELAGO

A low-key portrait of a family in emotional turmoil: Edward, suffering an existential crisis, is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary educational service in Africa. His mother and his sister decide to host a family gathering as a farewell party (or maybe as an attempt to talk Edward out of his plans), on a remote Cornwall island. Edward’s estranged father is yet to show up, two family outsiders have been invited, and the unspoken forces of rivalry and resentment bring the family’s buried anger and repressed tension to the surface.