RETURNING LILLY

The final wish of a dear, departed friend takes a woman on an illuminating journey toward a rediscovery of the meaning of life.

The magic is gone for Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen, Crossfire Trail), a woman who’s consumed by a demanding career as a paralegal, an exhausting job as a mother, and a stagnant marriage that’s losing its spark. Then she gets an unexpected break from her routine with unanticipated news. Lily, the woman who raised her, has died. Her last wish is for Emma to return her ashes to Hawaii, Lily’s idyllic birthplace. When Emma arrives in paradise, she’s greeted by Kala (Jason Momoa, Baywatch), Lily’s handsome nephew. He has a request of his own—that Emma help him and his friend Julia (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Lainie Kazan, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), a neighbouring landowner, fight a developer who threatens to destroy the beauty of the islands. When Emma grants the favour, it opens the door to a past she never knew existed and reveals the startling truth about her childhood.

Lily’s final dream was actually that Emma be reunited with her real birth mother—Julia, a woman whose secret now changes everything that Emma believed in about herself. Stunned, angry, and resentful, she turns to Kala—a man to whom she has become increasingly attracted—for support. He tells her of the magical Blue Room, a hidden cave that local legend claims is a spiritual pathway. It’s where Emma can make peace with the past, come to terms with Lily and Julia’s necessary secrets, and face the consequences of her affection for Kala. But when Emma learns that her husband and children are arriving to join her in Hawaii, Emma’s true emotional journey begins as she’s forced to make amends with the past, make the best possible choices for an uncertain future, and rediscover the magic of being alive.

Returning Lily is a film that will resonate with anyone who ever needed to appreciate the small joys if life, the true meaning of friendship and family, and the magic of being alive.