经历了父亲的去世后,受到严重心理创伤的尼尔将自己的心灵包裹在层层厚茧里。每天用工作、酒精,和异性伴侣麻痹自己的神经。如今,阔别亲人多年的他需要帮助家人卖掉家里的房子。却没想到自己的弟弟詹姆斯也从芝加哥被召唤了回来,而你而每天不得不和詹姆斯的妻子瑞贝卡常常相处。瑞贝卡是个聪明而独立的女性,在她的影响之下,尼尔的心结被逐渐化解。Following his father's death, Neil--a wounded man who armors himself with an all-too-effective combination of work, whiskey, and women--journeys back to the Midwest for the first time in years to help sell the family home. When his younger brother, James, is unexpectedly called back to Chicago, Neil finds himself marooned in the house with Rebecca, James' fiancee, a wickedly smart, fiercely independent woman whose impressive facade matches Neil's in its power to mask the damaged, desperate spirit hiding beneath. Set against the bleak backdrop of wintry rural Michigan, The Middle Distance takes an honest, unsentimental look at adulthood, the meaning of family, the ache of nostalgia, and the peril and promise of two lost souls finding each other in the darkness.