All That We Love is a beautiful, small, quiet movie. It made me cry a lot but I loved it and gave it a good rating. Margaret Cho stars as Emma. Emma opens the movie saying goodbye to her beloved dog. While she’s grieving that loss, several other unsettling things happen.

All That We Love lets Margaret Cho show a side as an actress that I hadn’t often seen before. She was really wonderful in the part.

Emma talked to her best friend Stan (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) about losing her dog. He was sympathetic. He’d loved the dog, too.

Stan was less sympathetic when Emma told him she’d heard from her ex-husband Andy (Kenneth Choi). He emailed her, which she hadn’t responded to. Somehow he heard about the dog and sent her a sympathy card.

The backstory is Andy was an alcoholic who had deserted Emma and their daughter Maggie (Alice Lee). He’d been working on a soap in Singapore for years but was back in the U.S. and sober. Andy was working the steps and living with his sister Raven (Atsuko Okatsuka). (I watch Atsuko’s standup all the time, it was great to see her in this serious role.)

Stan didn’t like that Andy was back, he didn’t trust him. Maggie wanted nothing to do with Andy and refused to forgive him. But Emma – Emma was wavering. Andy was a nice guy sober. Maybe there was hope.

Maggie had an Australian boyfriend, Nate (Devon Bostick). She was heading to Australia with him. Now Emma was grieving the dog, wavering on Andy, and facing an empty nest with Maggie. She wasn’t handling it well.

One of her employees, Kayla (Missi Pyle), tried to help her out with a new rescue dog. Kayla also gave Emma a woo-woo idea for how to conjure up a vision of her departed dog that may crack open the dog lovers in the last scene.

It’s not all sad, which my review so far might make you think. There were funny moments, karaoke, growth and healing, and one very good dog. I loved the gentle, soft-spoken way the story was told. If you haven’t seen the trailer, it will help you realize that it isn’t all depressing.

You can see All That We Love on Prime Video.