Persephone Fraser (Sadie Soverall) is sad. “My whole world is filled with regret because of the choices I made,” she says forlornly as she clutches an oversized coffee cup, while standing at best friend Chantal (Aurora Perrineau)’s marble kitchen island. Regret? How can this be? Even Persephone – or Percy, for short (“it’s easier”) – is perplexed. After all, she splutters, shrugging her cashmered shoulders at the gosh-darn inexplicability of it all, “I have one of the only remaining jobs in journalism, I have a cute apartment and I have hot men to hook up with!” Yet still; guffaws come there none. Percy needs closure. “I can’t move on and I know I have to,” she whimpers as the soundtrack reaches tearfully for its acoustic guitar. The answer? “I need to say goodbye [TWANG] … to Barry’s Bay.”
And with that we’re off. Specifically, we’re off to Barry’s Bay, the dinky Ontario lakeside town that is both the source of Percy’s turmoil and the picturesque setting for the barrel of escapist tosh that is Every Year After.
