Set in the distant future. Zin, a desperate mother, breaks into a reclusive man's home to extract and steal valuable memories that will fund her sick daughter's medicine.
Acting
Patricia Allison carries crushing maternal desperation in every frame.
Production
Dense worldbuilding in 17 minutes—no wasted space.
Direction
Vanderspuy squeezes feature-film tension into short form.
Director
Max Vanderspuy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely in a single location to mirror the claustrophobic memory-extraction technology itself.
The 17-minute runtime mirrors the average duration of extracted memory sessions in the film's universe—a meta-narrative choice most viewers miss until rewatch.