Stephanie Macdonald

Short film made during the COVID-19 pandemic about two estranged former lovers spending Christmas Eve together in isolation.

Inspired by her late son, a mother attempts to come out to her two grown daughters, with unexpected results.

Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.

Three roommates who can’t make rent would rather get high than work menial jobs. So they set out to find sugar daddies to pay their bills.