We connect ourselves to people, family, friends, and love them. They become a part of us. Then, when we lose that person, especially prematurely, that tragic loss can become overwhelming. A sense of confusion and lack of grounding suddenly shrouds us and moving forward with our own life can become pointless and nearly impossible; the pain, often too much to bear. We will never get over it. We can’t get over it, and that person is never forgotten. In The Forgiving, our main character, Avi Brickman, has suffered deeply from such a tragedy. We follow Avi as he confronts his guilt and pain head-on, and witness his ultimate salvation, not as a sugar coated fantasy of what we’d like, but as a reality, with all it’s imperfections and complexities. Here is a film that embodies Samuel Beckett’s notion, “​I can’t go on, I’ll go on.​” Hard, is an understatement, but wholly possible and ultimately vital. ​The Forgiving​ is an emotional exploration that gives us hope in the harsh reality of tragedy.