Just Saying

Just Saying is a dramedy set in 2018 in a middle-class suburb ofLowell, Massachusetts. The story centers on the relational dynamicsbetween a sensitive and talented grandson (Michael "Smike,"early 30s) and his bitter, idiosyncratic grandfather (Sid "Paps,"late 70s), forced together by circumstances beyond their control.Both are in the throes of tackling separate, but parallel, emotional challenges. Smike's loss and grief, revealed throughnon-sequential episodic memories, is entwined throughout thestory. Paps' traumatic history of his Marine Corps Vietnamexperience, disclosed through progressively troubling dreamstriggered by seemingly innocuous events, strains the relationshipbetween the men.Discovering more similarities than differences in the spirit andcore of their essential selves, they are drawn together as theyface their own individual, crippling vulnerabilities and emotionalanguish.Humor, peppered throughout the plot, adds dimension and abalancing force to this heartrending story.