Julie, still reeling over the fatal overdose of her lover Anthony, stays with her parents for a few days, where she informs her mother that her period is late.

In secret from the school and using their studio and equipment, Julie decides to move forward with her film, which is a semi-autobiographical account of her relationship with Anthony.

Eventually, Julie premieres her film, entitled The Souvenir, to her class and the school board, during which she envisions a dreamlike sequence in which she metaphorically confronts Anthony's wrongs against her and receives help from her friends and family in letting him go.

Years later, Julie, now a director of music videos, celebrates her 30th birthday at her flat with friends from film school.

Luke Schiller, Ed Guiney, Rose Garnett, Lizzie Francke, Emma Norton, Andrew Lowe, Martin Scorsese, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff will serve as producers on the film under their Element Pictures, BBC Films and Sikelia Productions banners, respectively.

[6] In August 2019, it was announced Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson and Joe Alwyn had joined the cast of the film.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Drawing on another terrific performance from Honor Swinton Byrne, The Souvenir Part II continues its story with profound emotional complexity and elegant storytelling.

"[16] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 90 based on 39 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

[17] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described the film as an "amazingly luminous self-portrait of the film-maker as a young woman" and gave it the full five stars.