25 minutes that'll wreck your entire week. No refunds.
In a small English town, a Bulgarian immigrant family receives an urgent visit from Child Protection Services due to allegations of domestic violence. As the officers take their child away and the parents swing from anger and despair to denial of reality, the deep rifts in their relationship come to the fore.
Acting
Petkov and Nichols absolutely demolish every scene.
Direction
Minov traps you in claustrophobic domestic chaos.
Editing
25 minutes feel like a lifetime of dread.
Director
Ivaylo Minov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Eastern European shorts confronting EU immigration bureaucracy as psychological horror.
Minov deliberately obscures the truth of the allegations — the film's power comes from your uncertainty, not resolution.
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