The Long Excuse

The Long Excuse

2016124 min6.8 / 10

A contemplative, emotionally restrained exploration of grief and its unpredictability, centered on two men navigating loss and unexpected connection through shared responsibility.

A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.

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