Seventeen minutes that'll wreck your heart and side-eye your dad.
A once brilliant teenager battling drug addiction seeks family support to heal his emotional wounds, but his conservative father's harsh discipline and mistrust risk tearing their family apart.
Acting
Cargin's withdrawal shakes feel uncomfortably real.
Direction
Mohta packs a feature's worth of tension into 17 minutes.
Director
Sashwat Mohta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 17-minute runtime mirrors rehabilitation intake assessments, forcing viewers into the same rushed judgment the family makes.
Mohta deliberately cast against addiction stereotypes—Liam's middle-class presentation challenges who audiences expect to struggle.
US
