Shaking off the disappointment of Madame Web’s cold reception leading to the lowest opener for a Spider-Man multiverse movie, Dakota Johnson plays a young blonde who shares her views on life and loneliness with Sean Penn’s New York City taxi driver in the trailer of Christy Hall’s Daddio.

Dropped by the makers on Wednesday, the one-minute-16-second-long trailer opens with Johnson’s character leaving New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and taking a cab to Manhattan at night. Dakota and Penn strike up a conversation about life and its vagaries through the nightlong journey as they share bits and pieces of their lives with each other.

“At the end of the day, people are people and people get lonely,” Penn says to Johnson, explaining to her how driving around all day gives him time to think about the heart-wrenching aspects of loneliness.

The official description of the film stresses the power found in rare moments of pure human connection, even with the most unlikely person. “It’s about truth and illusion, how we so effortlessly substitute one for the other out of survival. It’s about the hurtful memories of childhood, how past trauma can manifest itself in profound ways. It’s about the dance between the pain and poetry that is the human experience,” it further reads.

Produced by Johnson and Penn, Daddio received high praise last year at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is slated to release in theatres sometime this summer.

Johnson’s last film Madame Web, released on February 16, bombed at the box office. It could only earn USD 17.6 million in the opening weekend and USD 25.8 million total in six days of its arrival in theatres. The film has managed to garner only a 13 per cent critic score and 56 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.