Turtles

9/30/2024

Is love enough to sustain a relationship? It can certainly provide a powerful bond to keep partners together, but is that sufficient to maintain that connection when other issues arise (e.g., day-to-day life challenges, disagreements and disconnects about fundamental goals and aspirations, cohabitation conflicts, a growing lack of sexual intimacy, etc.)? These matters often come to a head when certain turning points in life are reached, such as retirement, especially when each partner holds different views about what that next stage of life is supposed to be all about. These are among the challenges faced by Henri (Olivier Gourmet), a recently retired Brussels policeman, and his longtime partner, Thom (Dave Johns), a former drag queen and seller of secondhand merchandise who now spends mos