As much as Chris Skotchdopole’s debut indie, , has been described as a house invasion horror, it is actually a marriage story about a relationship that needs to be rescued from a clear and certain disaster that it is careening towards. A conversation during the wedding photo shoot of Leah (Ella Rae Peck) and Shane (Rigo Garay) sets the ball rolling, with Leah either not allowing him a say on issues or disagreeing with him on everything—from how they first met to his book that is being brought out by her publishing house. If these disagreements were not ominous enough, a baffling blackout later, Shane finds himself and Leah (now his wife), heading off to her boss’s remote mansion for their honeymoon.
There is no recollection in his mind of the wedding night. The couple is stopped at the very start of their journey by the irritating waiter John (John Speredakos) offering profuse apologies for a disaster involving their wedding cake. At the same time, he has the most uncharitable and uncalled-for things to say about their vintage car from the 70s.
Meanwhile, Shane and Leah’s quarrels continue at their getaway, over the opening of wedding presents and solving crossword puzzles and then reach the tipping point with Shane wanting to back out of his book deal, after five long years of hard work. He has second thoughts about going public with his father’s alcoholism, his own troubled relationship with him, and their immigrant woes. As Leah loses her cool and Shane gets some.