In a future time a few people can harness the power of the sun, and this power is misunderstood. A young woman must find out who has the best intentions for her and others of her kind.
Acting
Ella Dacres radiates wary vulnerability in every frame.
Direction
Browning packs a feature's worth of worldbuilding into 14 tight minutes.
Director
Alex Browning
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's solar-harnessing metaphor reads as a sharp allegory for racialized bodily surveillance and state control over marginalized groups.
T'Nia Miller shot her scenes for this short between seasons of The Haunting of Bly Manor, bringing that same maternal menace ambiguity.