Causeway is a 2022 film about a female soldier (played by Jennifer Lawrence(?) from Hunger Games) who experiences a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after driving over an improvised explosive device in a foreign land (Afghanistan?). The movie starts when she returns to America and undergoes physical therapy programs while in a hospital. She soon leaves the hospital and moves in with a very supportive and realistically portrayed mental rehabilitation and care provider who helps ease her mental and emotional struggles. Our heroine seems to be 90% cured within the first 10 minutes of the movie and then takes a bus to return to her home town and live with her mother.

Although she seems fairly “normal”, she still has problems trying to live a normal life. She eventually relearns how to drive and takes an old truck that used to belong to here brother to a repair shop where she meets a kind man with a limp who offers to fix the truck for very little money. He asks her for her phone number so he can contact her wit information about the truck but she can’t remember her own phone number so he takes her phone to call himself and record his number on her phone.

Later, she calls him and they talk about the truck and eventually become friends. They eat ice cream together and she drops hers on the ground due to her lac of physical coordination. He is kind and understanding so he gives her his ice cream cone. Their relationship seams very platonic and she eventually reveals that she had a girlfriend and doesn’t date men. This doesn’t diminish their relationship and they maintain their friendship while sharing drinks and smoking together, eventually revealing information about their past and learning each other’s shortcomings.

She makes progress with her mental and physical abilities and gets a job as a pool cleaner which allows her to spend time swimming while her clients are on vacation. She invites her new friend to join her and she asks him to join her in the pool but he is hesitant due to his amputated leg. They talk about their past and he reveals that he lost his leg in a car accident while driving with his wife and son who died. After persuading him into the pool, they share an intimate moment and she kisses him out of pity rather than lust and he is offended. He leaves and their friendship dissolves.

That night, she returns to her mother’s house where she is sitting in a small children’s pool. She joins her mother in the pool and they talk about her urge to leave town. Her mother gets a phone call from one of her current boyfriends and she seems to be reminded why she wants to leave town.

She goes to her military doctor and convinces him that even though she might be limited in some of her abilities, she still has the competence to be a soldier. He is hesitant to let her return to such a stressful situation but eventually signs the paperwork that she needs to return to active duty.

She goes to her mechanic friend to pick up her truck and learns that he has done all of the work for free. She goes to thank him and tell him that she is leaving to rejoin the military. They talk and he convinces her that it would be better for them both if she stayed in town for a while and maybe moving away from her mother and into his large but empty family home.

Causeway is currently available on AppleTV.