Eight Hundred Grapes

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of miscarriage.

Georgia recounts the story of her parents’ fateful meeting: Her father mistakenly entered the wrong yellow Volkswagen (VW) cab, which her mother, a young cellist at the time, was already occupying, and they fall in love. Georgia intimates that their meeting was part of synchronization, a concept that her father argues is more relevant than fate, in which elements come together and merge perfectly. In the present, however, Georgia is running away from her own fiancé by driving to her hometown, Sebastopol, California. She stops at the Brothers’ Tavern, a bar that her twin brothers, Bobby and Finn, own, and when she enters the building, she attracts the attention of everyone there. Finn is visibly disturbed by her unexpected visit and cautiously asks her if she knows that she’s still in her wedding dress. When she confirms, he goes to get her food.

Georgia decides to sneak into her family’s house. While she is doing her best to be quiet, Ben, her fiancé, calls and asks to talk. Ten hours earlier, Georgia had her final wedding dress fitting and spied her husband walking down the street with a woman and a child, looking intimate.