1. A newly graduated 18 year old girl, Sophie, has just suffered the loss of her lifelong best friend, Stan. Not only had they been friends since the first day of school, Sophie had been in love with him just as long. Never having a chance to confess her love, she is devastated by the loss of such an important figure.
2. Constantly fighting with her mother, her life disrupted by Stan's death, she flees to New York to live in her father's old apartment. Sophie's mother lets her go, exasperated with the arguments they had been having, glad to see her go. Her life in america is then presented to the audience, as she takes up a job as a dog walker and spends most of her time losing herself in the public libraries of New York and observing others around her. Her life is very lonely there at first.
3. One day, as she's wandering in a library, her favourite place in which to lose her thoughts, she meets the elusive Riley. Both unsure of where they stand in life, they form a disfuntional relationship. Together they take refuge in drugs, roller coasting up and down the railways of intoxication, losing their thoughts in the hallucinations that has now become their world.
4. Sophie's habits spiral out of control, and as hallucinations of her past haunt her she suddenly realizes that she is not able to recognize Stan, much less the person she used to be when she was with him. In an attempt to regain her life, she leaves Riley without a word, revisiting her past as she moves from the imposing city of New York to her mother's home showing up on her doorstep sobbing after a year without contact. In her attempt to get clean she travels a hard road battling the temptations of her previous addictions.
2. Constantly fighting with her mother, her life disrupted by Stan's death, she flees to New York to live in her father's old apartment. Sophie's mother lets her go, exasperated with the arguments they had been having, glad to see her go. Her life in america is then presented to the audience, as she takes up a job as a dog walker and spends most of her time losing herself in the public libraries of New York and observing others around her. Her life is very lonely there at first.
3. One day, as she's wandering in a library, her favourite place in which to lose her thoughts, she meets the elusive Riley. Both unsure of where they stand in life, they form a disfuntional relationship. Together they take refuge in drugs, roller coasting up and down the railways of intoxication, losing their thoughts in the hallucinations that has now become their world.
4. Sophie's habits spiral out of control, and as hallucinations of her past haunt her she suddenly realizes that she is not able to recognize Stan, much less the person she used to be when she was with him. In an attempt to regain her life, she leaves Riley without a word, revisiting her past as she moves from the imposing city of New York to her mother's home showing up on her doorstep sobbing after a year without contact. In her attempt to get clean she travels a hard road battling the temptations of her previous addictions.
5. Several years pass, and it is apparent that she is now doing well, having moved back to America to attend an Art University in order to set up the gallery which she and Stan had always dreamed of. One day, Riley appears at the doors. He confesses his love for her and begs her to rejoin him. After agreeing to see him for a short while thinking it couldnt hurt, she spends one intoxicated night with him and realizes what her life would be if she got back with Riley. She leaves him, and the last shot of her is her walking home from the back in the busy streets of New York as she retrieves a photo of Stan from her wallet.
Throughout the movie she experiences flashbacks of her life with Stan, especially when she sees something that is in relation to the way he died, as his cause of death is never really revealed until the very end, allowing the audience to make their own assumption.
Throughout the movie she experiences flashbacks of her life with Stan, especially when she sees something that is in relation to the way he died, as his cause of death is never really revealed until the very end, allowing the audience to make their own assumption.
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