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Connie & Joe is a comedy full of pathos. About a family, about the generation gap. About how children grow into adults and become
independent individuals right under the noses of their parents, without the parents suspecting a thing. It is about how, if you reject change, you stagnate and switch off from life. How you become
stuck in a period of time that no longer has any validity. How you keep seeing things as they were, not as they are.
Over a weekend, Connie and Joe leave their working class life in a suburb of Liverpool to visit their son and his family in cosmopolitan
Geneva, Switzerland, where they are completely out of place. They bring with them, their accumulated wisdom gained from having lived all of their lives in this small, introspective, protected
environment. They adhere steadfastly to their traditional ideas and outdated values, passed down through generations and accepted without question.
When they attempt to transfer their myopic views to the modern world inhabited by their son, the results are hilarious.
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However, the lives of both Connie and Joe are mired by a web of secrets and pretence, whereas the relationship of their son Matt and his
wife Keiko is rooted in honesty and transparency.
Unwillingly, Matt and Keiko become burdened with family secrets, which if revealed, would shatter the lives of all concerned. But what will
they do with them? Will their honesty prevail, or will they too become embroiled in the tangled web of “things un-said”?
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