Get ready for a triple Christmas mind warp with the highly innovative supernatural holiday romance Between The Lights, written and directed by Michael Groom from a story by him and David Groom. It is set over three consecutive Christmas seasons in the U.K., marking three very different times in the life of Alice (Ines De Clercq). Right before the first Christmas, she meets Jay (Samuel Edward-Cook), and they bond over Alice's childhood fascination with David Bowie's Goblin King character from Labyrinth.
Having just met, they weren't planning on spending their holiday together, so Jay goes to spend Christmas with his family up north while Alice deals with what seems like a ghost in her home. However, on the way out of town, the signboard with the train schedules starts talking directly to Jay, telling him to skip the train and go be with Alice. Following its advice, he drops in on a very happy Alice, who informs him that the ghost, whom she was told by the former tenant is called Reg.
"...she meets Jay...where they bond over Alice's childhood fascination of David Bowie's Goblin King..."
Jay tells Alice the ghost's name is not Reg. That is when Alice finds out Jay is a medium, something Jay has been holding back from disclosing. He didn't tell Alice that on their first date, there was a pale man (Richard Riddell) at the bar, staring at him angrily the whole time. Alice didn't hear the man screaming at them in the street that night, telling Jay that he knew he could see and hear him.
Alice is a scientist and is highly skeptical of Jay's purported gifts, but she is falling in love with him as well. What happens over their next two Christmases will come as a big surprise for Alice, but did Jay see it coming the whole time? Groom has pulled off a massive elevation of the holiday romance concept, taking it to serious cinematic heights with Between The Lights.