Your girlfriend's lying, your doctor's lying—are YOU the unreliable narrator?
Set in Los Angeles, a young woman, Dylan, is in and out of the hospital with a life-changing diagnosis, but something isn't right with her partner, Emily. Dylan begins questioning her reality and everyone in it, until her best friend breaks her out of the rehabilitation center to confront the source of the deception.
Acting
Pedretti's unraveling is viscerally terrifying
Direction
Martini weaponizes 19 minutes like a blade
Writing
Every line doubles as clue and misdirection
Director
Alex Martini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martini developed this after her own experiences with medical dismissal as a queer woman with chronic illness. The 19-minute runtime was a deliberate constraint to mirror Dylan's fractured sense of time.
Part of a 2024 wave of queer female-led thrillers interrogating institutional trust—think 'The Invisible Man' but make it lesbian and actually short enough to finish.
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