Amy & Lan

Amy Connell and Lan Honey have known each other all of their lives. They were born within days of each other to parents who lived together communally. Growing up the eldest children in a compound “family,” they are best friends, more like siblings. Three couples have bought a 78-acre farm in rural England in an effort to return to nature, work the land, and raise their children together. Six other kids, and two additional adults, round out the family. Everyone shares in the childcare and chores. Beginning when they are seven, Amy and Lan alternate narrating their idyllic childhood. They love the animals on the farm and marvel at the intelligence and miracle of life. After Amy plays a particularly unkind prank on an adult, their minder tells them that they are the barometers of the compound. They see whatever is going on around the farm. They see more than the adults would like sometimes, although they do not always understand what they are seeing such as a mental breakdown and adultery.