What happens when kindness becomes currency and dementia is just an opportunity?
A home healthcare worker steals her dementia patient’s winning scratch-off lottery ticket.
Acting
Ashley Shelton's restrained desperation—no villain mustache, just hollow choices.
Direction
Tara Sheffer trusts silence; dread builds in what characters don't say.
Director
Tara Sheffer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 19-minute runtime mirrors Mandolin's trapped circumstances—no escape, no room to breathe, just decision and consequence.
The film joins a growing wave of American shorts examining care work precarity, where 'essential' labor meets impossible economics.
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