The promise in the title is a big one. Different how? Different for who? Different for Sidney (Riley Dandy), the sister, who goes to meet her brother Joseph (Adam David Thompson) in a bar and observes that he looks like he slept in a ditch? Different for the audience who might, like Joseph, feel as if they’ve been here before? Different this time around?

Sidney doesn’t want to be away from her six-year-old daughter, Steph, for long. That’s the sort of promise Joseph can respect, despite all the troubles of the past. He will try to help her keep it. We don’t really learn a lot about how they fit into the world, but we learn how they relate to one another. She owns a pawn shop. he used to own a bar. They’ve both been through the wringer and, amongst other things, it has cost them their friendship.