An old woman checks into a hospital and checks out of reality — or does she?
Elderly, iconoclastic artist Miriam Kohen is admitted to a geriatric mental health facility against her will. She immediately understands that this is no ordinary hospital. Over the course of 28 bizarre days, she experiences myriad strange occurrences as she battles against the system.
Acting
Suzanne Bertish carries every frame with magnificent, furious fragility.
Direction
Rifkin weaponizes ambiguity — you'll question every scene twice.
Production
The facility itself becomes a character: banal, bureaucratic, sinister.
Director
Saskia Rifkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 28-day structure deliberately echoes standard psychiatric observation periods, turning bureaucratic time into psychological torture.
Suzanne Bertish and Barbara Rosenblat had never worked together before; their tense chemistry emerged from genuine mutual unfamiliarity during filming.
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