Dolly De Leon tries to recruit a lost soul to the theater in exclusive Ghostlight clip

Rita is a former theater professional who “didn’t want to stop” when she moved home, as she explains in the clip. “It’s not all just Shakespeare, you know?” she says as a means of convincing Dan to stay. An ironic proclamation, given that Dan eventually does end up joining the troupe for their production of Romeo And Juliet. Per the film’s synopsis, when the melancholic Dan “finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose” through joining the theater. But “[as] the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.”

Ghostlight stars the real-life family of actors Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, and Katherine Mallen Kupferer (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret). Katherine plays Keith’s troubled daughter Daisy, who discovers his secret theater habit and decides to get in on the action herself. For the father-daughter duo, theater becomes the therapy that Dan has previously refused to entertain. “When things get hard, you either blow up or bail! It’s a bad habit!” Daisy scolds her dad on the side of the stage in the trailer. “Many of us live our lives repressing our emotions, because out there, they can be a liability,” De Leon explains to her actors. “But in here, we can put those into good use.”