Intercut with these scenes are scenes of an elderly janitor working in a high school. Frustrated, she leaves the car and follows him, and in the trash outside sees hundreds of ice cream cups.Ī young woman (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend of six weeks Jake (Jesse Plemons) go on a trip to meet his parents for the first time. Jake sense the janitor watching them, freaks out and gets out of the car as the young woman screams at him not to. The two get into a frustrated argument, but then begin making out in the car. Jake stops to dump the ice cream at his old high school, despite the young woman’s protestations. In the car they suddenly feel it’s too cold for the ice cream. The girl with the rash likes the young woman, and tells her she’s scared and is scared for her as well. The high school girl employees laugh at Jake, except for one with a rash that the young woman seems to recognize.
Jake begins talking about the kids he sees at the school every day as they stop at the ice cream store. In the middle of a snow storm, they decide to stop for ice cream. In the car, they discuss a film and the woman begins speaking a literal film review. He describes the evening and many of the things he says happened she has no memory of happening. Jake decides it’s time for them to leave. When she returns upstairs, Jake’s mother is on her deathbed, elderly. “Louisa” calls, and she answers – the voice speaks and again asks for the answer.
She also sees her paintings hanging that she showed before – they’re by a real artist, not her. In the laundry she finds only janitor uniforms. She asks the young woman to do some laundry in the basement, so she goes down despite Jake’s protests. Jake’s mother then starts cleaning, now a younger woman. Jake’s parents begin to suddenly seem older and Jake mentions that the young woman, “Lucia”, studies gerontology, or aging, when previously the science she had said she worked on was physics. The young woman gets a call from “Yvonne”, which she answers and hears a male voice saying he has one question to answer. Jake’s mother explains she has tinnitus, hearing a buzzing noise in her ear. The mother asks how they met, and the young woman tells the story of how they met at a trivia night but the story has many inconsistencies.Īfter dinner, the young woman sees a photo of young her that she then sees as young Jake. Jake ends up snapping violently at his mother. The parents then ask her about her work in science – not painting. She gets missed calls from “Louisa” and shows the parents pictures of her work. At dinner, they talk about the young woman being a painter, not a poet. Jake’s parents meet the young woman and call her “Louisa”. The basement door is locked and has scratches all over it, which Jake says is from their dog Jimmy. The young woman at various times seems to say she lived in a farmhouse like Jake’s and at others in an apartment. On the grounds, they find the lambs dead and frozen solid, and the pen where all the pigs lived before they had to be put down after they had been eaten alive by maggots. Interspersed with all of this are scenes of the janitor getting up and doing his daily routine, going to work at a high school.ĭespite the intense snow, Jake insists on giving the young woman a tour of the farm. There is a lot of snow, which worries the young woman as she has a big scientific paper to write the next day. The young woman notes a brand new swing set in front of an abandoned house, which she finds strange. She then gets a phone call that is from a “Lucy”, which she declines. On the drive, Jake mentions some poems he loves that are written to a woman named Lucy – “like me”, the young woman notes.
She admits that maybe it’s a bad idea to go meet his family when she doesn’t think the relationship is going anywhere, but she is curious where he comes from. They leave a town and begin driving into lots and lots of farmland. They are headed on a trip together to visit his parents for the first time. Very briefly, she sees an elderly janitor in a window who also thinks that he is thinking of ending things. A young woman (Jessie Buckley) confesses in narration that she has been thinking of ending things with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons), who she has not been dating terribly long, maybe seven weeks.
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