A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Cinematography
Grey Atlantic misery you can practically taste.
Acting
David Call's priest: repressed, sweating, magnificent.
Director
Andrew Brotzman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brotzman shot on location during actual Maine winter storms; the cast was genuinely freezing, which explains the authentic misery.
The film quietly belongs to a micro-genre of early-2010s queer indie cinema—think 'Weekend' or 'Keep the Lights On'—where desire and repression battle in grey-lit rooms.
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