Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?
Direction
Okumura's split-screen tension is genuinely innovative
Acting
Midori Francis sells blindness without spectacle
Sound
Audio design that weaponizes every notification ping
Director
Yoko Okumura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during COVID with actors often filming their scenes separately, making the video-call premise accidentally authentic.
The film quietly subverts 'final girl' tropes by making survival depend on interabled collaboration rather than individual heroism.
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