When he moves his car while drunk Mark loses his driver’s license and has to undergo an MPA. During a course he meets Helena and tries to sober up with her, but temptations lurk everywhere..
After Mark’s first failed attempt to get sober, Helen mentioned that he had only made it 27 days [00:41:50]. This movie is not only about the main character’s fight against a serious disease, it is much more about how society deals with the thin border between enjoying alcohol or other drugs and when life gets out of control because of that.
The same thin line is there between being admired for not being boring and living life to the fullest and not allowing much enjoyment – a very interesting moment depicted between Mr. Alcohol surely facilitates getting into an entertaining party mode, but in a fragile and short-lived fashion that can easily turn into aggression.
While the plot might not contain many surprises, it still shows nicely that alcohol cannot be the ingredient of a happy life for obvious reasons.