The Holdovers

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, 'The Leftovers' finds a cantankerous professor, played by Paul Giamatti, at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during the Christmas holidays. to look after a handful of students who have nowhere to go.

Against all odds, living together will lead him to forge an unusual bond with one of the students, played by Dominic Sessa in his big screen debut, and with the school's head chef, whom He is brought to life by actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph.

It reunites Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti after 'Sideways' in a story of three lonely and traumatized souls in a boarding school during the Christmas holidays of 1970.

An adjunct professor of History whom neither the students nor his own colleagues can stand, and who is forced to stay at Barton Academy in charge of those students who cannot go home for vacation. This is the punishment meted out for suspending a high-profile student whose father had recently funded the school gym. Thanks to a Christmas miracle, the motley group of boys in Hunham's care is soon reduced to just one: Angus Tully.

Angus is a first-year student, very intelligent but with many traumas, who tries to deal as best he can with a complicated family dynamic. Also staying at the school is the school's head chef, whose son, Curtis, recently graduated from Barton, died in Vietnam. Still immersed in a deep mourning process, Mary decides to stay in Barton because it was the last place she was with her son.

Abandoned to their fate in the otherwise absolutely empty institution, this unexpected trio will face adventures and calamities to finally enjoy something resembling a family.