A middle-aged New York City career woman travels to Florida to reconnect with her eccentric aging father and his dramatic girlfriend.
Lily is a native New Yorker born to a British mother and American father. Growing up after her parents divorced at a young age has led her around the world but made it difficult to stay rooted. She makes a decent income writing magazine articles, but what she’d really love to do is write books. As she does some demanding research on familial relationships in ancient Greco-Roman mythology, particularly fathers and daughters, she visits her eccentric father Eddie, now in his 80’s, and his girlfriend, who live in Delray Beach, Florida, for what she thinks will be a relaxing vacation. Having not seen them in several years, Lily is struck by how much they’ve both changed, and just how challenging getting older can be. While Eddie’s girlfriend takes every opportunity to corner Lily about their finances, Lily’s own relationship with father is put to the test as decades of her difficult upbringing and their strained communication resurface against the backdrop of Lily’s fascination with tragic characters from ancient texts.
Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and director whose work has shown at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving Image, and whose feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival, and is available on Apple TV and Amazon, in the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay, The Great Perhaps, is an adaptation of the Joe Meno novel, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and has been a part of film festivals and script competitions.
Christine founded (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, 805 Lit + Art, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, and Audience Askew. Her debut collection of short stories is set to be published in 2025. She lives in New York City.
