A mere month after its homecoming premiere at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival, H. Nelson Tracy’s indie drama “Breakup Season” is back for an encore.

The film stars Chandler Riggs and Samantha Isler as Ben and Cassie, a couple in the final days of their relationship. Compounding the agony, the breakup occurs while trapped in Ben’s family’s rural, snowed-in home over the Christmas holiday.

One must admit the premise reeks of Hallmark pabulum — the kind of story where everyone “gets over themselves,” learns the meaning of Christmas, and enjoys a happy, unconvincing ending.

What’s so refreshing is how mature the film repeatedly proves itself to be. Starting with the breakup scene itself, which handles the power dynamics of sex astonishingly well, the screenplay repeatedly refuses to make the obvious, saccharine choices — this is the greatest strength of “Breakup Season.”

While the film’s overall structure remains familiar, the characters are grounded in a relaxed reality that evokes a Linklater hangout piece more than it does a rom-com (albeit with less monologues about the nature of time). Each member of the clearly united cast is uniquely charming, and it’s difficult to say who steals the show because the answer is “everyone.”

At a certain point, a scene comes along centering the brother and father that has nothing to do with the plot, and the audience eats it up because we simply enjoy spending time with these people.

Of course, there’s the elephant in the room: “Breakup Season” was shot here in La Grande, which is now an official stop on the Oregon Film Trail. It’s an unreserved delight to see our street corners and local business on display (even if they do paste Hobby Habbit’s facade on top of The Archives).

The on-location shooting adds another layer of texture to, and further strips away any sense of genericism from, the film’s storytelling.

I also find myself frustrated with the film’s portrayal of La Grande, starting with its central location — the family’s home. I have yet to see, let alone be inside, a single residence in and/or around town that resembles the virtual mansion we spend most of our time in. Because the vast majority of folks here could never afford that kind of space, setting the story there has a jarring effect of alienation, leaving us out in the proverbial cold.

When out of the house and spending time downtown, the erasure of La Grande life continues. At no point do we see any of our non-white residents, at no point is there any hint of our queer population.

Nowhere are the plethoras of right-wing signage and attitudes made visible to the audience.

The end result is a film that takes place in the placid idyll of a rural city, where conservative politics have no effect on its marginalized people because we simply do not exist.

Do these representational oversights ruin the film? No, not by a long shot.

“Breakup Season” is available to stream starting Dec. 6 on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and select cable platforms.