[1] It follows Lexi, a struggling young mom played by Jade Pettyjohn, who has an opportunity to reconnect with her estranged family after she's approached by her now-sober father with news of her mother's failing health.
[3] Francesca Scorsese originated the story and then wrote the screenplay with co-writers Savannah Braswell and Megan Lulu Taylor.
[5] In a 2023 interview with journalist Scott Feinberg for The Hollywood Reporter, Scorsese explained that she had workshopped the screenplay for "about a year" prior to finalizing it.
She explained that the father in the story is in no way related to her own father, filmmaker Martin Scorsese, but that aspects of the maternal relationship in the film is definitely influenced by her life and her relationship to her mother, Helen Morris, who has Parkinson's, a progressive degenerative disease.
[5] On her approach to directing the film, Scorsese explained "Planning is important, but impulse is where the magic is... where I could, I sought some light comedy through unscripted moments.