Exit, Carefully

It's Christmas Eve, 1988. Nineteen-year-old Beth takes a Greyhound from Cincinnati to Columbus to stay the night with her mother Linda, and Linda's alcoholic, charismatic, and combative boyfriend Gary. Beth's grandmother, recently widowed and ready to manipulate, drunkenly, for whatever she wants, completes the family gathering. Beth hasn't told any of them that she flunked out of school months ago, nor that she may be in trouble. In Linda and Gary's cramped two-bedroom apartment, Exit, Carefully--sometimes a dark comedy, sometimes a familial drama--follows twenty-four hours of family intoxication, hands of Euchre, minor acts of violence, and desperate acts of love, as each person learns just how hard it can be to walk out the door.