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Midlife Compost

Edgar’s eco-anxiety attack forces Noah, his stay-at-home dad, to reconsider the World and his Wife.

synopsis

Noah has been a stay-at-home dad to Edgar (10) since birth while his wife Soraya has been working her way up in an Oil & Gas company. Promotions have always made Soraya horny, but Noah is growing fed up with her new S&M kinks. So, when Edgar has yet another eco-anxiety attack, he takes him on an eco-retreat, conveniently escaping home. The retreat soothes Edgar, but it turns Noah’s world view upside down as he discovers the power of hugging. Soraya, convinced that the retreat is a cult, crashes the patchouli party and drags her family back to safety. Coming home is hard on Noah who feels bossed around by Soraya while Edgar goes back to sulking. Noah’s attempt at a revolution is a rather unproductive vegetable patch and a self-hygiene strike, which sends Soraya closer to her arrogant male assistant: JK. When Noah realises his marriage is at stake and his attempts to curing his son’s eco-anxiety are useless, he returns, defeated, to his old role. But a flamboyant eco-action of Edgar’s causes Noah to have a breakthrough: he understands that to become his true self, big sacrifices must be made. He leaves Soraya, thus shattering her “Have-it-all” myth to pieces. When faced, alone, with the violence and emptiness of her job, Soraya chooses love and Noah’s gentler life proposal instead.

Director’statement

Being eco-anxious makes my position as a mother rather uncomfortable. Having reached a state of utter panic in post Covid 2022, with Ukraine getting invaded, I went on my first deep ecology retreat. And I came back to my “real” life in shatters. I was now part of the people who KNEW how bad the future would be. My partner, who had been with the kids at home while I was tree hugging, kept his cool. Even when the eco-anxiety transformed into depression, then rage, then back to square anxiety. The positive side of the End of the World is that it reveals what kind of human being we are. And I realised: I am a doer. So, I started writing a comedy about it and, also, had a third child. Midlife Compost is a remarriage comedy about an idealist hippy and a liberal white collar who have lost connection. By bringing climate change to the family table, their son shakes up their fragile status quo. Because to me, reconnecting as a couple after several years of routine and children sometimes feels as desperate as trying to save the planet. And yet, I truly believe it is crucial to at least TRY.

TFL PROGRAMME:
ComedyLab 2025

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