Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation, A Rainy Day in New York
) stars as Iris Evans in Writer/Director Jamie Adams’ story of an
up-and-coming singer-songwriter whose career dreams are on the verge of
coming true.
Iris’s US manager, Griff (Griffin Dunne), has landed her a gig to
provide songs for a new Hollywood low-budget romantic comedy. This is
her big break but Iris is struggling to finish the project. Hoping for
the peace and security she needs at the family home in Wales, Iris is
instead distracted by an ex-boyfriend (Craig Roberts) who refuses to
accept they have broken up, her eccentric uncle (Richard Elis), the
arrival of her older sister (Poppy Delevingne) and, most of all, the
thing that Iris is unable to accept or face - her mother’s impending
death from cancer.
To help Iris out Griff dispatches legendary American composer, and
Iris’s professional hero, Eleanor Roberts (Jennifer Grey) to Wales. She
descends on the family in a whirlwind of disfunction, alcohol and
craziness but Eleanor is the life source that Iris taps into. The
older, established composer at the end of her career and the younger
protégé on the verge of her first professional success bond creatively
and personally and together try to find a way through their personal
and professional issues.
