Moving On (2022 film)

Claire leaves her beloved corgie with her daughter and grandchildren so she can travel across the country to attend the funeral of her old college friend Joyce. Before the funeral service, Claire approaches Joyce's widower Howard, and bluntly informs him that she intends to kill him this weekend.

Directly after the service, Claire reconnects with Evelyn, who had been Joyce's college roommate and lover. It is revealed that Howard had wronged Claire decades ago, although the nature of the wrong is not yet specified. She insists she is going to kill him, now that their friend is gone.

After the two friends are unsuccessful at buying a gun, Evelyn initially refuses to help Claire with her plan to kill Howard at the wake. Instead, she heads to her assisted-living facility.

Meanwhile, at the wake, Claire reconnects with her ex-husband Ralph, whom she has not seen in years. Evelyn shows up, outs Joyce upon revealing their two and a half year relationship in NYC between junior year and beyond, so she and Claire leave together.

That evening, Ralph invites Claire home for dinner, where she meets his daughter and two grandsons. Afterwards, over drinks, he asks her why she left him, and she cannot bring herself to articulate the reason. Still, they have a romantic evening together and make love. However, Claire slips out early in the morning with freshly cooked bacon upon Evelyn's request.

As Evelyn changed her mind about helping to kill Howard, she convinces another resident to loan them his gun by bribing him with the bacon. The gun they want to use to kill Howard turns out to be a flare gun, but she insists it will be lethal at close range.

Under the guise of meeting to apologise in a park, Claire confronts Howard about the assault in a tense scene. She insists he admit to raping her forty-six years previously, while pointing a flare gun—the only kind of gun they've been able to acquire—at him. However, he collapses from what Claire assumes is a heart attack before she can pull the trigger. Instead, she uses the flare to signal that he needs medical help.

In the hospital, it is revealed that Howard actually had a non-life-threatening anxiety attack. Claire goes into his room and describes the assault in detail, but he continues to deny it. So she tries to smother Howard to death with a pillow, but is stopped by Evelyn.

In the end, during a final confrontation between Claire, Evelyn, and Howard in the parking garage at the hospital, Howard fires a shower of expletives at the women. Then he accidentally turns into the path of another driver and dies.

After Howard's funeral, Claire reconnects again with Ralph, as she is now ready to have a potentially ongoing romance with him again.