It Tells The Story Of A Middle Aged Woman With Small Children Whose Life Is Shaken Up When Two Free-spirited Twenty-somethings Move In Across The Street. Release: In A 2019 Interview With Filmmaker Magazine, Marshall Curry Detailed Key Aspects Of The Production And Storytelling: "It Was A Production Challenge To Find Two Apartments That Faced Each Other. I Knew If We Tried To Cheat It, The Audience Would Feel The Falseness. So I Looked And Looked, And In The End We Shot In A Very Generous Friends' Apartment, And Their Neighbors Also Said Okay... The Passage Of Time Is An Important Part Of The Story - How Alli's Obsession With The Neighbors Develops, And How The Neighbors' Lives Change Over The Course Of 18 Months. That's Tricky To Squeeze Into A Film That's Not Even 20 Minutes Long. So We Had To Build In Clues That Communicated The Passage Of Time - Weather Changing, Holiday Decorations, Infant Appearing And Growing, Etc. It's Always A Delicate Balance Between Being Too Obvious And On-the-nose With Those Clues And Being So Subtle That People Miss It Altogether. When I Was Editing I Would Show People Cuts And Ask Them At The End How Much Time They Felt Had Passed. I'd Add A Few More Clues Or Take A Few Away Until I Settled Specific Shots And Specific Durations In The Final Cut."