Documentary | 82 minutes

ON OUR OWN ISLAND is a timeless true love story that chronicles the seasons of a relationship from its romantic beginnings through life’s final moments.

The story of how Ellie and Steven met seems like a fairytale that only fiction can fathom. Over the years, Steven wrote hundreds of love letters to Ellie, chronicling their life together which he always described as taking place on their own island.

Indeed, that first fateful day when they met on a deserted beach in Malibu, California, lived in their hearts for decades; their love was true, endless, and singular. And just like the love so many others are lucky enough to share, they thought theirs would last forever.

But what happens when a love story comes to a close, and how is it possible to navigate that end, together?

ON OUR OWN ISLAND is a deeply intimate, honest, and uplifting nonfiction love story — a story for our times. While the pandemic places the impermanence of life smack in our collective faces and cities experience a mass exodus to the hills, ON OUR OWN ISLAND takes viewers inside the journey as one family does just that.

Touching people around the globe, ON OUR OWN ISLAND inspires and heals with its heartwarming tale about love, life, and the profound dance to the end.