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  • 6/11/2025
When Love Doesn’t Die… The In Between (2022) Breakdown 🕊️✨

💫 **"The In Between" (2022)** is a **romantic sci-fi drama** that delves into love, loss, and the supernatural. Starring **Joey King**, this emotional Netflix original explores what happens when two souls refuse to be separated—even by death.

📽️ In this video, we explain the **plot twists**, the **supernatural love story**, and the **symbolic meaning** of “The In Between.” If you’re a fan of tearjerkers with a twist of fantasy, this one’s a must-watch.

💌 Join us as we uncover the emotional depth and spiritual beauty behind this powerful film. Like, comment, and subscribe to NeoStudioX for more heartfelt movie recaps and reviews.

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### 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 **Full Cast & Crew:**

* **Director:** Arie Posin
* **Writer:** Marc Klein
* **Main Cast:**

* **Joey King** as Tessa
* **Kyle Allen** as Skylar
* **Kim Dickens** as Vickie
* **Celeste O’Connor** as Shannon
* **Donna Biscoe** as Doris
* **April Parker Jones** as Mel

**Genre:** Romantic Drama / Sci-Fi / Supernatural
**Language:** English
**Runtime:** 1h 55m
**Platform:** Netflix
**Release Date:** February 11, 2022



🧠 Plot Summary:

Tessa doesn’t believe in love—until she meets Skylar, a charming and adventurous boy who changes everything. But after a tragic accident, Skylar dies, leaving Tessa heartbroken. That is, until she starts receiving signs he might still be trying to communicate from "The In Between" — a place between life and death.

Driven by love and a desire for closure, Tessa embarks on an emotional journey to reconnect with Skylar and discover whether love truly transcends death.



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Transcript
00:00A doctor welcomes a girl back to life. Doctor is explaining about her health to her. She is
00:06confused. Let's go back 182 days in the past. Tessa, is a young beautiful girl, whose passion
00:13is photography. She takes pictures of everything and everywhere. One day, she decides to go watch
00:20a movie. Because, she is fond of watching romance films. She cannot understand the movie,
00:26due to it being a Spanish film. The guy decides to help her out and translates everything the movie
00:31depicts and whispers it in Tessa ears. Tessa is emotional due to sad ending of the movie.
00:37Both go out of the cinema hall, the guy tries to be a bit cheesy, it sounds a little awkward,
00:43and they part their ways. He looks back and tells Tessa his name Skylar, and so does she.
00:49After a minute, she figure out that she left her jacket inside the cinema hall and she also
00:54finds Skylar's hat. We are back to the scene, where Tessa is in the hospital and dreams of Skylar in
01:00her bed, who want to show her something. She suddenly wakes up from the dream. She explained
01:06to her foster parents and the doctor, that she can see Skylar like he is still with her. Later,
01:12she wakes up at night and starts to cry thinking of Skylar. She gets a text message from unknown number
01:18and is shocked to find a picture. In a few days, she meets a woman who specializes in after-death
01:24incidents. She suggests Tessa to read her book, but she denies it. We again go back 102 days,
01:32this time. Tessa is wondering about the man who is actually Skylar. After explaining about her photo
01:38in her class, she goes home. It is clear that her passion for photos is not ordinary. Tessa and her
01:45friend is invited into a sports game, where Tessa takes pictures and finds out Skylar is one of the,
01:50and he manages to win the game. Later on, when Tessa go towards Skylar to give his hat back and say
01:57hi. Skylar acts like he just found a long lost treasure. Skylar's mom reveals Tessa that he has
02:04been looking for her on internet for a long time. There they decide to meet up again. They go out in
02:10Skylar's car, where she gets to know that, Skylar's parents' relation isn't too great and he is worried
02:16about it. One the date she reveals to Skylar about a mysterious place, where she goes to take
02:22photographs. Thereafter wandering a bit, they sit down in a tub, where Tessa tell him that he has not
02:28kissed her yet. They slowly start to kiss. We are back in the current timeline, where Tessa is looking
02:35at Skylar pictures with sadness in her eyes. Her friend picks her up, but when Tessa hears the same
02:41song she listened with Skylar, she cannot resist herself and, starts to cry. One night she throws
02:47away her pictures and equipments, to which, her foster dad is pissed and they argue a bit. Usually
02:54she would just want to be left alone, this time she starts to use her photo equipments and try to,
02:59make new photos and she finds out that, the old photo maker is making some new photos with Skylar
03:05her presence in it. She starts to read more books and watch more videos of Miss Doris. Let's go back
03:11to 65 days ago. Skylar and Tessa are on a beach, where Skylar is very upset with his parents splitting
03:18up. They kiss in the end of the talk. Later, Skylar watches all her pictures in her home and is amazed
03:25by it. Next day, she wakes up very early and is ready to go with Skylar. They go inside a jungle and
03:32decide to boat. Skylar teaches Tessa on how to boat and they look a bit closer.
03:39Skylar tells her that he love her, where she does not reply anything. But, later she starts to kiss
03:44him and they make love. Back in the present timeline, she is explaining her friend about
03:49paranormal things, but she ignores her. In the exam, Tessa's pencil starts to move forcefully and
03:55everyone phone starts to ring, indicating Skylar's presence. Eleven days before the accident. Skylar
04:03and Tessa are in a art gallery, where they meet Skylar's father. Skylar took one of her picture
04:08and put it on sale, to which, she feels annoyed and angry. They have a small argument about it and
04:15talk about their future. They want to live together, but on one side Skylar is going to another state and
04:21wants Tessa to join his state school. But, Tessa thinks she will not be able to afford it. They
04:26text to each other, where Tessa is missing Skylar. In the present timeline, Tessa and her friend
04:32Shannon decide to do wudu table. But, it seems to not work out, she gets a call from her foster mom
04:39and goes back to give her car back. Suddenly, upon arrival, she gets a GPS pointed toward some location
04:45and take it as a sign from Skylar. She follows it and finds out the same women named Doris,
04:52where she explains to her to go to the places to meet Skylar, where, she and Skylar were showing
04:57intense love. She also explains that, there may be no coming back, from the barrier, in between.
05:04For days, before the accident. She go to a party with her friend and finally decides to say those
05:10three magical words, to Skylar. Instead gets to know that Skylar has already decided to go to
05:15another state and she is even more pissed at him now. He explains that his father is not Okie and
05:21he need to be with him, that is why he is going. Back in present timeline, she tried several places
05:27one by one and come to the location, where they both kissed. There she is able to open a barrier
05:32and sees Skylar on the other side, but when he tries to break the barrier, he breaks the mirror
05:37instead and right after, police arrives, because her foster parents traced her location. While having an
05:44argument, Tessa goes unconscious and later gets to know that, if she does not get the treatment that
05:49night s, she will not be alive next morning. She calls her friend and they both try to go to last
05:55location to meet Skylar, but, Skylar itself starts to help them, by driving their car, to the location,
06:01where the accident occurred. Tessa goes unconscious again and see herself as a ghost, she also sees the
06:07incident where they meet again before Skylar is about, to leave the city. She eventually tells him that
06:13she loves him and seeing that, her ghost form is finally happy. Not only this, but she also see
06:20the ghost Skylar, she kisses him and hugs him. They see themselves in a house and now she has to choose
06:26either her family or Skylar. She choose her family and wakes up, where her foster parents greets her with
06:32happiness. Later on, she is giving presentation to big judges of some big organization and appreciating
06:38Skylar's suggestion about pursuing her dreams.

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