Two kids, no adults, ten minutes—and your childhood innocence is about to get wrecked.
Two seven year olds negotiate their after school life without adult supervision which slowly chips away at their innocence.
Acting
Seven-year-olds carrying unspeakable weight like it's nothing.
Direction
Therriault makes suburbia feel like a horror set.
Director
Nathalie Therriault
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Latchkey kids peaked in the 80s/90s when dual-income households became necessity—this short resurrects that forgotten childhood experience for a new generation.
Therriault reportedly cast non-actors and built trust over months—those aren't performances, they're real reactions to manufactured situations.
CA
