[3] The film stars Mortensen as John Peterson, a middle-aged gay man whose homophobic father Willis (Lance Henriksen) starts to exhibit symptoms of dementia, forcing him to sell the family farm and move to Los Angeles to live with John and his husband Eric (Terry Chen).

Willis's mind is declining, so John brings him west, hoping he and his sister, Sarah, can help their father find a home closer to them.

In October 2018, it was announced Viggo Mortensen would star in the film, alongside Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Guðnason, and directing from a screenplay he wrote.

[7] One of the first scenes of the movie where Mortensen's character shoots a duck as a young boy and decides to keep the dead bird as a pet actually happened to him as a child.

The website's critics consensus reads: "As messy and complex as the relationship at its center, Falling's repetitive nature can be taxing, but its heart is clearly in the right place.