When it comes to Shakespeare, there never was a story of more woe than Romeo and Juliet, but can one of the Bard’s most famous plays be used as family therapy?

In Ghostlight, coming next month from IFC, a real-life family of actors plays a family that accidentally discovers community theater, and take a star-crossed emotional journey that may heal the gap between father Dan (Keith Kupferer), mother Sharon (his real-life wife Tara Mallen) and their daughter Daisy, played by the pair’s daughter Katherine Mallen Kupferer (Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret).

The film’s official synopsis reads, “When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater’s production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.”

The Indie feature was directed by Chicago filmmakers Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, who directed 2019’s Saint Frances, which racked up many critical and festival award nominations, winning a Special Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival that year.

Ghostlight appears to be on a similar trajectory: after the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, IFC Films was quick to secure the distribution rights.

IFC Films will release the film in New York and Chicago theaters on Friday, June 14, with a national rollout to follow.