She brought a cake. She left with something way worse than crumbs.
Grace has baked her dearest friend a birthday cake. However, when Grace's gesture is not appreciated, her generosity takes an obsessive turn.
Acting
Freya Ingram's smile that never reaches her eyes
Production
Cake as prop, weapon, and metaphor
Direction
Aikman weaponizes pastel aesthetics
Director
Essence Aikman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 'domestic horror' shorts redefining feminine spaces as sites of violence, following Sucker and The Dressmaker.
The 11-minute runtime mirrors Grace's own compressed rage—every second of niceness she performed now weaponized.
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