Spare Room

2019 • 96 minutes

About this movie

David has spent the last year drowning in flashbacks and guilt after a tour in Afghanistan. When his parents push him out of the house after futile attempts to help; he travels cross country. Lil is a young widow who has recently lost her mother and cares for her 15 year old brother with Down Syndrome. Her husband's posthumous discharge was labeled less than honorable; leaving her without benefits and forced to juggle insurmountable debt. She works at a run-down diner and decides to rent what used to be her mother's room to help make ends meet. David arrives in town and takes a job bartending for Nat; a jaded retired Vet who sees some familiar ghosts in David's eyes. Needing a place to stay; David rents Lil's spare room; and their attraction sparks unforeseen consequence.