The World to Come. The camera moves from the bedroom she shares with her laconic husband, Dyer (Casey Affleck), through their sparse, frigid cabin in upstate New York.
It’s Tuesday, January 1, 1856, a fact Abigail states in her interior monologue/diary entry. The frozen bedroom is an apt description of their wintry abode.
But it's also a metaphor for the state of their rote marriage made chillier by the loss of their child some months earlier.Abigail begins the day washing potatoes on which the water freezes on contact, she says with the banal recitation of a woman driven by routine.
She’s unaware of the thaw that’s about to arrive in the form of companionship, enlivening conversation, and passion with her new neighbor Tallie (Vanessa Kirby.