What if feeling everything meant losing yourself?
Kate is afflicted by a mysterious case of hyper-empathy syndrome and stumbles across a group that claims to treat this disorder.
Acting
Betsey Brown's silent suffering — all trembling jaw and exhausted eyes.
Direction
Moeller stretches 16 minutes into what feels like a slow-motion nightmare.
Director
Alec Moeller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hyper-empathy syndrome is a real concept in psychology research, though the film exaggerates it into body horror territory — making the speculative feel queasily plausible.
The entire film was shot in a single location over two days with a skeleton crew, which explains the suffocating intimacy that never lets you breathe.
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