Visual artist Digby Webster and trainee chef Camille Collins are madly in love. After eight years of dating, the couple want to live together and marry. Digby has popped the question many times and Camille has eagerly said, YES. But can love conquer all, when you are living with a disability?
Using intimate observational filming, paintings, interviews along with Digby’s animations, this film is a unique collaboration between director Trevor Graham and artist-co-director-animator, Digby Webster with support from his girlfriend Camille Collins, who unveil the challenges they face, and their romance, to the world.
This feature documentary closely observes Digby’s and Camille’s journey over the course of three years as they pursue their romantic, artistic and culinary dreams. They step out together, dance, dine and take holidays. Digby proposes many times and Cammie answers YES as if to reassure each other that one day their dream will come true.
Complicating the romantic duo’s dream of living together, and one day marrying, are the very real concerns and questions from those who love and support them most, their parents. Can Digby and Camille really manage a married life together? How will they deal with the stresses and strains such a commitment brings? Will living together impact their working lives? Would it affect Digby’s art work? Is Digby’s place even big enough? Where will style-queen Cammie put her extensive collection of dresses? These are pertinent questions, without easy answers from Digby and Camille.
At a time when people born with Down syndrome are living longer, and enjoying a better quality of life with more freedom, independence, opportunities and agency than ever before, this documentary romance explores complex questions around interpersonal relationships, love, intimacy, marriage and family from a first-person, fly on the wall perspective.
