It premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival on 13 October 2018, and was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2019, by Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

[3] The film was adapted for screen by its director, Barnaby Southcombe, who saw the original play Scarborough, written by Fiona Evans, at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2008.

[6] The play was first acted in Edinburgh, but the original script sets the characters in a bed and breakfast in Scarborough, as opposed to a hotel.

Southcombe’s decision to alternate between the scenes showing the two couples hints at the fact that the stories unfold simultaneously.

Gráinne Humphreys, the director of the Dublin International Film Festival said Southcombe's elegant drama evades easy definitions.