"Rather than cope in conventionally healthy ways with her daughter's (Delaney Quinn) mysterious illness that requires a feeding tube, or the fact that her husband (Christian Slater) is MIA, or that there is a giant water-spewing hole that's opened up in her Montauk apartment ceiling that may be a metaphor for her own condition, Linda takes to cheap wine, weed, and the comfort of her own spiral. She's also a therapist whose own therapist (a deadpan Conan O'Brien) works in the same practice and is also her supervisor."
"Throughout this tense, risibly funny, anxiety-addled movie, Linda tries to come up with solutions. But she's batted against by her own clients - including Danielle Macdonald, who is terminally afraid of accidentally killing her own newborn child - and the medical administration hovering around her daughter, demanding immediate improvements or else."
"There are also the unhelpful phone calls from her husband, telling her to enjoy the spoils of the crummy motel she's forced to reside in due to said hole. Couldn't she just enjoy a margarita by the pool for once? There's also a fellow tenant (A$AP Rocky) at the motel whose elusive appearance and vague attempts to help her out seem to embody Linda's own white privilege, putting us in the realm of a symbolic dream movie."
Linda is a therapist and mother who retreats into alcohol, weed, and resignation while her infant daughter's mysterious illness requires a feeding tube and her husband is absent. A giant, water-spewing hole in her Montauk ceiling functions as a possible metaphor for her unraveling. Her own therapist, played deadpan by Conan O'Brien, also supervises her at the practice. Clients' crises and medical administrators demand immediate changes even as Linda resists. A motel stay introduces an elusive fellow tenant and moments that expose class and privilege. The film mixes bleak humor, surreal symbolism, and a tight focus that largely keeps the child offscreen.
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