"Damn good payday, but you just sold your memories and your own dog won't look you in the face."
SAINT DAD is a warmhearted, serious comedy about family, gentrification, and belonging. Denise, Bud, and Suzanne have sold their childhood cottage on Greany Lake out from under their dying father ("a flatulent drunk who hates kids") to a rich out-of-stater. Now the lake has been discovered by other wealthy buyers, starting a property grab that threatens to change the local culture for good. When dear old Dad recovers—either a miracle from God, or rotten luck, depending on which sibling you ask—the sibs scramble to hide their transgression by asking Leona, the new owner, to pose as the renter until they can safely break the news. A corporate exec used to running the show, Leona gets more than she can manage when her 18-year-old daughter bursts in ("You couldn't buy a place on the Cape like everybody else?") as the siblings are making their case. Over the course of a few hours, both the locals and the outsiders reckon with their mistakes, memories, and shared humanity.