A woman learns her estranged father has passed away. She returns with her boyfriend to her childhood home of Belize, where she is reunited with her brother, and must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
Acting
Kaye and Webber weaponize passive aggression beautifully.
Cinematography
Belize becomes suffocating paradise, lush and claustrophobic.
Direction
Dual directors mine their own family tensions, apparently.
Director
Laura E. Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Co-director Jessica Kaye wrote and stars as Mara, suggesting this is essentially autobiographical exorcism dressed as fiction.
Belize's complex colonial history mirrors the film's white family dynamics—outsiders claiming space they don't fully understand.
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