Plagued by the abuse of her past and the turmoil of failed intimate encounters, Laura struggles to find a lover and a sense of normalcy. Her beacon of hope comes in sixteen year-old Eva, a talented pianist disillusioned by the life her mother imposes upon her. An unlikely relationship is formed between the two and Eva becomes an obsession to Laura. In light of Eva's unhappiness, Laura convinces her to runaway to her house and they soon find themselves caught within an intense entanglement. Manipulation, denial and codependency fuel what ultimately becomes a fractured dynamic that can only sustain itself for so long.
Acting
Evan Rachel Wood's trembling volatility is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Directors are brothers who also wrote—intimate, claustrophobic framing.
Director
Carlos Sanchez
Evan Rachel Wood
Laura Drake
Julia Sarah Stone
Eva
Denis O'Hare
William
Maxim Roy
Nancy
Joe Cobden
Benjamin
Jonathan Shatzky
Guy With Laura #1
Max Laferriere
Guy With Laura #2
Yardly Kavanagh
Office Clerk #1
Teresa Picciano
Office Clerk #2
Lara Binamé
Waitress
Nick Baillie
David - Nancy's boyfriend
Xavier Loyer
Boyfriend's Son
Michael Dozier
Detective
Alexandre Nachi
Guy with Eva at Karoke club
Jason Conyers
Van Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Evan Rachel Wood and the directors spent months developing Laura's backstory, including abuse details never shown on screen.
Released during Wood's public advocacy for abuse survivors, creating complicated discourse about her playing an abuser. The film was largely ignored commercially, perhaps too uncomfortable for the #MeToo moment it accidentally mirrored.
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