2026美国剧情
Jackie Kimball, 28 and living with her boyfriend Anthony, is suddenly beset by sexual difficulties and a loss of desire. Despite Anthony’s understanding reaction, Jackie is conspicuously rattled by the disruption of what was previously perfectly good sex life. Now in her last year of field experience for a Master of Social Work degree, Jackie leads a busy life of clinical practice and paperwork, and snatches only a few hours here and there to spend with Anthony, whose day job leaves him time to pursue his musical interests. In the process of downloading a mix playlist from her brother Matthew, now married, Jackie learns that Matthew is expecting his first child. Pleased and a little bemused by the news, Jackie starts thinking about taking a week off from her internship and visiting Matthew.
Matthew lives in a house with his wife Lily, a likable, down-to-earth girl who is just starting her second trimester. As soon as she arrives, Jackie seems to put aside her responsible working-adult personality and relax into a more expansive, theatrical mode. Jackie and Lily have been friendly as long as they’ve known each other, and Matthew recedes comfortably into the background as the more outgoing women get reacquainted on the first night of Jackie’s visit. Though she claims not to be a heavy drinker, Jackie manages to imbibe enough wine that she needs help getting to bed. As Lily and Matthew prepare for bed, Lily asks about Jackie’s acting out, but Matthew takes Jackie’s dramatic side for granted. Lily is more curious than troubled.
The mood of the three-way relationship remains pleasant: Lily and Matthew are both even-tempered, and Jackie seems to be enjoying the opportunity to push boundaries without consequences. That same night, however, Jackie confronts Matthew, telling him that their closeness will remain superficial as long as they avoid discussion of “the phase”: Jackie’s childhood-long, unrequited incestuous attraction to Matthew. The issue is not news to Matthew, and he seems willing to talk about it with Jackie, but she is more ill at ease than he, and terminates with awkward abruptness the conversation that she herself began.