MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE is a dark comedy-drama that follows the journey of Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a U.S. Army veteran in Afghanistan who is at odds with her family over the presence of Zoe (Natalie Morales), her best friend. who died in the military. Despite the persistence of her VA group counselor (Morgan Freeman), the stern love of her mother (Gloria Reuben), and the lightness of an unexpected love interest, Merit’s warm and dysfunctional friendship with Zoe keeps the duo isolated from the world. Until Merit’s estranged grandfather (Ed Harris), holed up in the family’s ancestral lake house, begins to lose his way and needs the one thing he refuses…help. Above all, this is a friendship film about a complicated friendship, a broken family, and the complex ways we deal with grief.