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Adam and Zooey have been unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant for seven months. At wit’s end, they decide to detoxify, de-stress and go to the country to keep trying. Their relaxing time away turns to mayhem as they are set upon by a band of drunken young men who beat them up, and rape Zooey in front of Adam. As the distraught couple attempt to recover, they discover Zooey is pregnant. Unsure of the patronage of their child, they decide to go through with the pregnancy, use it to heal, and raise the child as their own – no matter what. Zooey is nonplussed, and uses the pregnancy to heal from her trauma. But Adam, who is sure the child has been spawned by a rapist, is haunted, and eventually driven to extremes.

ZOOEY & ADAM is the latest film from director Sean Garrity, whose last two films also played at CIFF (INERTIA, LUCID).