A cabin detox, a fiancé's promise, and 23 minutes of slow-burn dread.
A love story about city girl Sydney, a relapsed drug addict, who is convinced to journey to a country cabin by her fiance Tom, in order to clean up.
Acting
Zoë Winters' withdrawal tremors look devastatingly real.
Direction
Raso stretches 23 minutes into pure psychological suffocation.
Practical Effects
That cabin location is doing 80% of the emotional labor.
Director
Mark Raso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Raso made this as his NYU thesis film before directing Copenhagen and Kodachrome. The cabin was his actual uncle's property in upstate New York.
The 23-minute runtime mirrors real-world intervention timelines—short enough to seem survivable, long enough to break someone. Raso has called it 'gaslighting as genre.'
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