Twenty-something-year-olds Lukas, Mia and Jonas have been best friends since their childhood, but then three years ago this all changed. They fell in love with each other and became a very happy menage-a-trois. They decried society’s contempt for their unusual relationship and became totally committed to each other even though it meant making a break from their parents who vehemently disapproved of their arrangement.Since then once a year every summer the trio went on a camping trip together touring the countryside where they were able to be completely free from everyone’s prying eyes and pointed fingers. This year however is different as Lukas has just been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and although the tight knit lovers agree to take an oath that the holiday should be focused just purely on joy, they soon realize that it is difficult to completely forget that this will be their very last summer together.
The trip starts off all light and love and it is surprising that they actually get to their first destination as they cannot keep their hands off each other and are always making out in the back of the van. However it is inevitable that they cannot avoid the elephant in the room especially when Lukas shares with them the Living Will that he has written that gives them both control rather than his estranged parents.
When he gets taken sick and Jonas is rushed into hospital the trio’s joy and hope has been replaced with fear and grief and they have to deal with the anger of Jonas’s parents who turn up and insist that the Doctors keep him alive even though that is exactly against his express wishes.
This sophomore film from German writer/director Timmy Ehegötz is overly melodramatic even given it’s themes. The three good-looking young leads play their parts passionately but despite this it still seems that there is not enough actual chemistry between them to convince us that their relationship is as deep and real as the script would have us believe.
This well-meaning movie is full of energy and brimming with enthusiastic performances and has a lot to commend it for particularly, in its attempt to de-mystify the whole thruple relationship concept.
This well-meaning movie is full of energy and brimming with enthusiastic performances and has a lot to commend it for particularly, in its attempt to de-mystify the whole thruple relationship concept.
