When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a new housemate in
Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship
based on a mutual belief in their art, and one another. Both aspire to capture
the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her
photography.
After Bernie’s former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished Daniel
Dunn, dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to
accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a
road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and
photographs.
What ensues is a journey into the heart of the nation, bringing the housemates
into conversation with people from all walks of life—“the absurd dreamers and
failures of this wide, wide country”—as they try to make sense of the times
they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to
chase their own ideas and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both
romantically and artistically.
Warm and insightful, Housemates is a story of youth and freedom—a
glorious celebration of queer life, and how art and love might save us all.
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