A bartender content to drift and a painter wrestling with bigger questions cross paths in In Transit, a 2025 drama that turns a quiet artists' retreat into the setting for two very different reckonings.
What is In Transit about?
The film follows a young bartender settled into an easy, unexamined life in small-town Maine who agrees to model for an older painter spending time at the retreat. What begins as a simple arrangement becomes something closer to an exchange, as each woman is pushed to look past the assumptions she has been making about what a good life actually looks like. Director Jaclyn Bethany keeps the focus tight on the two women and the retreat itself, letting long stretches of observation and conversation carry the film rather than plot mechanics.
About the cast
Alex Sarrigeorgiou plays the bartender and Jennifer Ehle the painter at the center of the story, with François Arnaud, Theodore Bouloukos, Andrew Garman, Ethan Wayne Smith, Tre Ryder and Roxanne Sarrigeorgiou completing the cast around the retreat.
Context & significance
In Transit is a joint American-Canadian production from 2025 working in a quieter, character-driven strand of drama, where an unlikely pairing across generations becomes the engine for the story rather than any external event. Its retreat setting and slow, two-hander structure place it among independent dramas more interested in interior change than incident, closer in spirit to intimate character studies than to plot-driven storytelling. At a compact 82 minutes, the film trusts its two central performances to hold attention, giving the bartender and the painter's shifting dynamic room to breathe without padding the runtime with subplots.
Watching In Transit on Ktime
In Transit is available on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, letting viewers pick whichever suits them. This page is free to read, and watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time account login, part of a service shaped around the Farsi-speaking audience's viewing habits.