A dead body, a ticking clock, and a secret that could drown you.
Following a sudden, tragic bereavement, a West Cork cleaner must decide if she will uphold a tightly hidden secret whilst navigating the fast paced pressures of a tourist property turnaround.
Acting
Rushbrook's face holds entire economies of suppressed rage.
Direction
Byrne squeezes thriller tension into domestic spaces.
Editing
Seventeen minutes feel like suffocating hours.
Director
Aisling Byrne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
West Cork's tourist economy relies on invisible labor—Byrne literalizes this by trapping us in the 'turnaround' itself.
The seventeen-minute runtime mirrors actual Airbnb cleaning windows, making form and exploitation inseparable.
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