In this entrancing personal essay, debut filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey presents a profoundly conflicted case for the romantic comedy. Also invited is a cadre of pop culture writers and film critics who reflect with a paradoxical near fondness on the rom-coms that permanently imprinted a distorted ideology onto their brains. More than 160 film clips present a nonstop barrage of horrors, where examples of how to behave in a relationship range from unrealistic to outright psychopathic. Even a light analysis of popular, memorable and classic romantic comedies is liable to cause outrage, and while Sankey is quick to point out that the genre has historically provided a space for women to see themselves – with so much of cinema lacking female characters – she suggests there might be alternatives. Thorough, complex, hilarious, even disturbing, Sankey’s film is a near-biblical assessment of the euphoric highs and festering lows of the rom-com.