"We begin with the sound of a crash, offscreen. And then a funeral. Roman is mourning his twin. Strangers come up to him, exclaiming how much he resembles the deceased. "I feel like I know you," one says. "Oh God, your face!" Instantly, we realize this must happen to twins at funerals all the time."
"One of his fellow mourners is Dennis, who speaks freely of his own lost twin, Dean. Outwardly the two men would seem to share nothing. But Dennis reminds Roman of Rocky, and the two bond over shared experience and loss, eating together and buying groceries, even road-tripping to a hockey game. You almost expect a rom-com montage where they start shopping for clothes."
"Dennis tells heartwarming stories about Dean, such as the time he subbed in for him on school photo day, and nobody was the wiser. The heartwarming goes to heartrending, though, when Dennis talks about the agony of loss. He actually likes the pain, he says, "because if I don't have the pain, then he's really gone, and I'm actually alone.""
Roman mourns his twin Rocky after a crash and navigates a funeral where strangers note their resemblance. Roman helps empty Rocky's Portland apartment alongside his devastated mother, played in a brief, searing turn by Lauren Graham, and decides to stay. Roman finds a twin bereavement group and befriends Dennis, who shares intimate stories of his lost twin Dean. The two men grow close through meals, errands and a road trip, but Dennis reveals a troubling attachment to pain as proof of presence. Rewinding revelations and flashbacks of Rocky expose deeper motives and an unsettling contrast between the brothers.
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