A teenage girl, distraught from her vain attempt to connect with her estranged mother, resorts to cutting herself. When she develops an online relationship with an older woman, she learns to accept her sexuality and the endless solitude of sprawling suburbia.
Acting
Nicole Fox carries every frame like she's drowning in chlorinated water.
Cinematography
Suburbia as beautiful coffin — empty pools, strip malls, golden hour despair.
Director
Dean Matthew Ronalds
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nicole Fox won America's Next Top Model Cycle 13 before pivoting to indie film; this was her first lead role.
Shot in 2011 but released in 2013, it captures the exact liminal era when online relationships still felt dangerous and illicit rather than mundane.
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