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The events unfold in contemporary times, anchored in the early 2000s as Louise works within a bustling university setting. The modern backdrop frames intimate affairs and memory as forces reshaping career and personal life. The timeframe highlights the immediacy of choices and their ripple effects across relationships and daily routines.

Set around the Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City, the film follows Louise as she navigates auditions, administration, and a mounting personal crisis. The action also shifts to Louise’s mother’s upstate home, a quieter landscape that contrasts urban life and magnifies themes of memory and longing. The campus and home locations anchor the narrative’s tension between professional responsibilities and private desires.

🌀 Reincarnation

Louise is drawn to F. Scott because his appearance, voice, and painting style resemble her late high school sweetheart. Her belief that he might be the reincarnation of that lost love drives private interviews and a clandestine affair. As longing eclipses judgment, professional boundaries blur and the past intrudes on the present. The theme examines how memory can distort reality and pull someone toward dangerous fixation.

💔 Infidelity

Louise’s affair with F. Scott unsettles her relationships, especially with her ex-husband Peter. Peter’s confession of sex addiction adds another layer of betrayal and challenges for forgiveness. The romance intersects with professional life, forcing Louise to weigh desire against responsibility. The contemporary, intimate setting makes infidelity feel immediate and consequential.

👪 Family

Family members—Louise’s brother Sammy and her best friend Missy—bring pressure, jealousy, and manipulation into the crisis. Sammy’s favored status by their mother creates tension and excuses for missteps, influencing Louise’s choices. Missy’s past with Scott and her current meddling intensify the sense that loyalty versus self-interest is at stake. The theme tracks how family dynamics shape, and sometimes undermine, personal decisions.