Preparation for the Next Life

It’s all part and parcel of Preparation for the Next Life’s clear-eyed portrait of life on the edges of American society, where the disappearance of social safety nets has made that life that much tougher to endure.

...is as sensitive to such painful, implacable realities as it is alive to the possibilities that nevertheless emerge, in small moments of tenderness and connection, between its characters. 

...wends its way through the contradictions and tragedies of love between two people who need more than just a bed warmed by another body.