Rebuilding is a somber but quietly affecting portrait of a man picking up the pieces after catastrophe. Josh O’Connor plays Dusty, a reserved, recently divorced father whose ranch has been destroyed in a wildfire. Now living in a trailer on a FEMA site, he weighs his options, seriously considering a move to Montana for steadier work. But at the urging of his ex-wife Ruby, played by a wonderfully understated Meghann Fahy, he agrees to spend more time with their young daughter Callie-Rose (Lily LaTorre).

At first, Dusty sees the loss as purely financial—just a job gone up in smoke. He doesn’t view himself as the same as the others at the FEMA site; in his mind, they’ve lost everything while he’s simply in transition. But as Ruby encourages him to be present, and he begins to share quiet moments with neighbors he once kept at arm’s length, Dusty starts to recognize a more profound sense of shared loss. What burned wasn’t just a ranch—it was a way of life, a sense of place, a fragile tether to family and community. And as Callie-Rose, played with irresistible charm by LaTorre, beams beside him, it becomes almost unthinkable that he could walk away. His roots may have been scorched, but they’re still there—just beneath the surface, waiting to be tended, waiting (perhaps begging) to grow back.

Inspired by his own time between homes and shaped by his lived experience in fire-scarred towns, director Max Walker-Silverman infuses Rebuilding with grounded authenticity. He reminds us that home can be reimagined after devastation and that community can be as resilient as wildflowers rising through ash.