Netflix announced on Tuesday morning that Lonely Planet, its new romance from writer-director Susannah Grant (Unbelievable), is slated to premiere on the streamer on October 11, also unveiling a few first-look stills, which you can view above and below.
The film watches as a reclusive novelist arrives at a prestigious writer’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the remote setting will unlock her writer’s block.
While there, she meets a young man — and what starts as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.
Certainly, the May-December romance is on trend at the moment among storytellers. Filmmaker Todd Haynes took to Netflix last year with his dark comedy May December, which nabbed a number of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
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