One burger joint. Five years. Two hearts slowly unlearning how to fit together.
Steph and Mike meet at a burger joint in downtown Toronto. Their initial encounter ends well, when Mike 'gets the number'. As time goes by the relationship blossoms and they make a tradition of always coming back to the same place they met every year for their anniversary. Year by year, at the same burger joint, we see them evolve, from doting on each other, to supporting, to tolerating and eventually to bickering and fighting. Will the maturity that time brings to every couple be enough to save their relationship? Or will they both end up heart broken like so many other twenty somethings trying to get a handle on the delicate balance between love and life?
Acting
Noah Reid and Katie Boland pack entire years into single glances.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds improvised because you've had these fights yourself.
Direction
Same booth, same camera angles — the visual grammar of stagnation.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Toronto's actual downtown diners, the film captures pre-gentrification city spaces that now barely exist — making its timeline feel doubly lost.
Noah Reid later won a Gemini Award and became a Schitt's Creek fan favorite; this early short proves his range was always there. Katie Boland co-wrote the film, drawing from her own early-twenties relationship archaeology.
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