After sharing an unexpected kiss as teenagers, Ella and Reece reconnect once a year over the next decade. As new relationships, changing ambitions and lives spent moving in different directions repeatedly pull them apart, their connection refuses to disappear. *A Year Later* is an intimate LGBTQ+ romance about first love, imperfect timing and the person you can never quite leave behind.
Synopsis
At seventeen, Ella and Reece share an awkward, unexpected kiss at a chaotic house party. Neither knows exactly what the moment means, and life soon carries them in different directions. But one year later, they find each other again—and then again the year after that. What begins as a fleeting teenage connection becomes a pattern stretching across a decade, with their paths crossing in parks, supermarkets, carparks, bedrooms and at the milestones that gradually transform them from uncertain teenagers into young women.
Through first relationships, painful breakups, university ambitions, travel, career changes and engagement parties, Ella and Reece repeatedly discover that their feelings have survived—even when the timing has not. Each reunion brings them closer to admitting what they mean to one another, but also reveals how much their lives have changed in the time apart. As they struggle between independence and intimacy, they must decide whether their connection belongs to the past or represents the future they have been too afraid to choose.
Tender, funny and emotionally honest, A Year Later is a time-jumping LGBTQ+ coming-of-age romance about growing up, growing apart and continuing to find your way back to the same person. Told through raw, intimate snapshots separated by a year at a time, the film asks whether first love ever truly disappears—or simply waits for the right moment to return.
