Hassan, a Somali-American airport shuttle driver in Minneapolis, is struggling to make ends meet. When Lloyd, a stranded twenty-something at the airport, offers to pay Hassan to take him overland to Chicago, it seems worth the risk. But as the realization grows that his passenger is not what he seems, Hassan finds himself trapped in a terrifying ride that he can’t escape, knowing that saving himself might put countless others in danger.
Acting
Hounsou's contained panic vs. Smit-McPhee's chilling blankness.
Direction
Perelman traps you in that van for 93 suffocating minutes.
Director
Vadim Perelman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hounsou learned basic Somali for the role, though the script deliberately keeps Hassan's background vague to emphasize his 'invisible' labor.
The Minneapolis-Chicago I-94 route was chosen specifically for its stretches of isolated farmland—production mapped every mile for maximum unease.
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