The In-Between is a romantic movie that touches on the supernatural kidney. It's grounded on a youthful girl who believes she's getting signs from the afterlife after losing her soulmate to an accident. It's now streaming on Netflix.
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Plot summary
Tessa (Joey King) is a passionate student of analog photography with a mysterious history. Her swain, Skylar (Kyle Allen), is a rowing sucker who works as a lifeguard every summer and can speak French, Italian and Spanish. Tessa lives with Vickie (Kim Dickens) and Mel (John Ortiz) who are wedded.
After being involved in a road accident, Tessa dies and is brought back to life in a sanitarium to find her swain, Skylar, dead. She's informed by Dr. Sarkisian that she ruptured her heart, forcing them to operate on her.
Exactly 182 days before the accident is the day that Tessa and Skylar first meet. Roving around in a hunt of photography openings, she comes across a youthful man wearing an orange cap tromping along the sand and clicks a picture of him. She walks into an empty cinema hall to watch Betty Blue and is soon joined by a youthful man, Skylar, who sits many rows ahead of her.
When the lack of mottoes leaves Tessa confused, Skylar moves to the seat beside hers and translates the film for her as she watches. They have a sportful debate over happy consummation. They only manage to change their names before parting ways. Tessa returns to collect her jacket that she had forgotten at her seat but also finds Skylar’s orange chapeau there.
Back in the present, Tessa has a visit dream in which Skylar guides her out of the room and carries her toward a bright light. The nanny attending to her tells her about Doris, a case who's writing a book on the afterlife. Tessa admits to not remembering anything about the accident. Her croaker advises her to be conservative.
Tessa receives an image of a still from Betty Blue from Skylar’s number after his death. She connects the phone company who claims the communication must’ve gotten wedged in the garçon and only been delivered now.
Tessa discusses After Death Communication (ADCs) with Doris. Doris warns her that she doesn’t have a lot of time until Skylar moves on and is unfit to communicate with her from the afterlife.
102 days before the accident, Tessa’s schoolteacher tells her she believes she has a shot at getting into the Rhode Island School of Design, the stylish art academy in the state.
Tessa gets invited to snap the rowing platoon and recognizes one of the other platoon’s players to be Skylar. His platoon wins the race and Tessa returns his cap.
Skylar’s mama approaches them and helps Skylar ask Tessa out. On the way to their date, Tessa learns further about Skylar’s family and plays‘ Noway Tear Us Piecemeal by INXS which becomes their song.
Tessa shows Skylar around the Empyrean, an abandoned honeymooners’ resort from the‘60s. The couple rests in a heart-shaped bathtub in one of the apartments after which they've their first kiss.
Skylar plans on staying in Avalon for the summer before leaving for Brown University on Rhode Island.
Returning to the present, Shannon gives Tessa a lift to the high academy. Tessa breaks down when Skylar’s song plays in the auto. She reveals that they were fighting the week before he failed.
Tessa’s schoolteacher encourages her to channel her pain into her prints. Rather, she decides to quit photography.
She has another dream about Skylar. Skylar sends Tessa signs using the machine in her photography plant.
Tessa returns to the sanitarium looking for Doris but is disappointed to find her gone, leaving her a book to help her in reaching Skylar.
65 days before the accident, Tessa invites Skylar to her photography plant and shows him her prints. She gifts him one of the filmland she took but he gives it to an exhibition to vend, leading to a fight.
Returning to the present, Tessa is taking the SATs when her hand is moved by an unnatural force, and Skylar’s song bursts through the phones of everyone present. This convinces Tessa and Shannon that Skylar is trying to communicate from beyond the grave.
Shannon studies colorful metaphysical books and they try colorful styles to communicate Skylar but are unprofitable in doing so.
5 days before the accident, Tessa tries to fix her and Skylar’s fight but rather, finds out that he hid that he was moving to Oregon after the summer. She ends up breaking up with him after another fight.
Back in the present day, Tessa is dropping off the auto for Vickie when the auto’s navigation system automatically puts her in a position. Believing it to be a sign from Skylar, she follows the route to Doris’ house who tells her how to communicate with Skylar – by going to those places where they felt the most love.
Before she leaves, Doris warns Tessa about the troubles of crossing the hedge between life and death.
Still, then’s a complete breakdown, If you still have dubieties about the ending.
The In-Between (2022) ending is explained in detail
Tessa’s history
After she shows him her photography plant, Tessa offers to accompany Skylar to his house. On the way there, Tessa eventually reveals her history to him.
She tells him how she noway knew her pater and was abandoned by her mama. Mel was her mama’s last fiancé before she left.
After her mama left, Mel tried to get guardianship but the court was unintentional to let a middle-aged bachelorette borrow a youthful girl.
She was left with no other option but foster care. That was where she developed her observation chops.
Back to the sanitarium
Shannon helps Tessa get a camera that's fit for landing Skylar’s ghost and she revisits all the places from the flashbacks. She has a supernatural experience at the Empyrean and sees Skylar but is unfit to touch him.
She's picked up for trespassing and brought home where she has a fight with Mel and Vickie and collapses before being admitted into a sanitarium. Her croaker tells her she has restarted her heart’s rupture and will have surgery in the morning.
Tessa gets a call from Shannon and asks her to pick her up from the sanitarium. Shannon intends on driving to the final destination on Tessa’s list but the auto gets commandeered by Skylar’s ghost who drives them to the scene of the accident.
Tessa gets out of the auto to probe but falls causing Shannon to call for help.
The last meeting
Tessa has an out-of-body experience and is eventually reunited with Skylar. She relives their last discussion and is glad to find that she was suitable to tell Skylar she loved him.
They venture through their recollections and dreams together until Tessa realizes she has to choose whether she wants to live or die. She chooses to live and departs from Skylar for the last time before returning to life.
She goes on to give a donation on ghosts in every sense of the word as a part of her operation to the art academy and Skylar’s ghost is seen sitting in the last row.