FIVE SECONDS FLAT the film, accompanies the upcoming album of the same name by Lizzy McAlpine. The film centers around the idea that to experience heartbreak is to experience a death of sorts, both from the point of view of the broken and breaker.
Other is the story of two half-Chinese sisters forced to work together to save their late father’s American dream. As they experience daily racial comments about their ethnic ambiguity, they discover a way to own their identity and heal.
십대 때부터 술과 마약을 시작한 제임스 프라이. 아내도 있고 20대지만 생명이 위험할 정도로 몸이 망가진다. 추락 사고로 다친 채 미니애폴리스의 재활 시설에 입원하면서 다양한 환자 동료들을 알게 된다. 그중에는 조직 범죄에 몸담은 레너드와 매춘부였던 릴리, 그리고 한 방을 쓰는 판사 출신의 마일스 데이비스도 있다. 릴리와 가까워지지만 규정을 어겼다는 이유로 릴리는 퇴소해서 나가고, 제임스는 레너드의 도움을 받아 릴리를 데려오지만 릴리는 버티지 못하고 결국 자살을 한다. 그런 슬픔 속에서도 제임스는 재활 과정을 마치고 시설에서 나온 뒤 자신을 시험하고자 술집에 들어간다.
Becky Rooks, a young female rookie cop, experiences a loss of control during a routine traffic stop where she is assaulted and her life is spared because instead of fighting back she decided to play possum.
Marcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now an imminent home foreclosure, she has nowhere to turn but to the hope of a miracle. That miracle she finds in Shoot the Moon, a national game show that promises a one in a lifetime chance to win it all. But Marcy's faith in the show comes with a price. As her relationship with her daughter Alice is put to the test, the clock ticks towards a seemingly inescapable fate. Shoot the Moon tells the story of miracles and the extraordinary place they are found.
