FULFILLMENT tells the story of two half-brothers --- Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble and his younger sibling, Emmett, paralyzed by indecision and working on a factory assembly line --- who find themselves at their family home in Kentucky and upend each other’s lives in devasting ways. Between them is Alice, Joel's wife, a wry, passionate young woman who is being slowly asphyxiated by domestic tedium and whose longing collides with Emmett’s hunger for connection and desire to escape a sense of burgeoning failure and shame. As the chemistry between them escalates, the family is plunged into a violent crucible, each character brought to a precipice of immutable catastrophe.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early 20s, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks --- a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer. They begin a secret relationship, and as they grow closer, Alma --- who comes from a liberal family of Bosnian immigrants --- struggles to understand Owen’s fraught relationship with family and home.