Of Masquerade and Rhymes (2020)
Have you ever blown out a match before it burned down to your fingertips?
Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 7M
Director : Laura Henderson, Sarah MacLean
Synopsis
It's a dilemma old as time; how do you mend a broken heart? Safely tucked in her home, Jesse Collins uses her quick wit as a shield to keep the world at arm's length. Calvin, her best friend, steps up to meddle as only a best friend would, trying to help her start living again. Through a parks and rec poetry program, Jesse meets Hannah, a housewife who was looking for a hobby. The two find more than they expected, but could she possibly be the one to inspire Jesse to move on? In this feature, friendships are tested and tried, and lives and loves are rewritten with unexpected endings.
Based on a song by Sheila Houlahan, but reworked and re-recorded to include her poetry, KEEP ON is a story about connection and belonging -- not with others, but with ourselves. What do you wish you tell your younger self? How would you hold them, that person who seems both so far away and so close? How would you convince them that they're not defined by their pain? Keep caring, keep feeling, keep fighting -- #keepon.
It's a dilemma old as time; how do you mend a broken heart? Safely tucked in her home, Jesse Collins uses her quick wit as a shield to keep the world at arm's length. Calvin, her best friend, steps up to meddle as only a best friend would, trying to help her start living again. Through a parks and rec poetry program, Jesse meets Hannah, a housewife who was looking for a hobby. The two find more than they expected, but could she possibly be the one to inspire Jesse to move on? In this feature, friendships are tested and tried, and lives and loves are rewritten with unexpected endings.
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