When the person you love starts disappearing in plain sight.
A successful actress grapples with her beloved husband's increasingly crippling bouts of depression.
Acting
Noortje Herlaar's face does everything the script doesn't.
Direction
Verbong refuses easy catharsis.
Director
Ben Verbong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Verbong based Esther's unraveling on interviews with Dutch caregivers, capturing the invisible labor of loving someone mentally ill. The film's 5.1 rating reflects its refusal to comfort.
The apartment was shot in Verbong's actual childhood home; the claustrophobic corridors weren't designed, they were remembered.
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