Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Acting
Riseborough's micro-expressions deserve a microscope
Direction
Choe makes discomfort feel like humid weather you can't escape
Director
Christina Choe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Choe based the premise on real cases of 'false claimants' who insert themselves into missing persons investigations, but flipped the focus to the psychology of the imposter rather than the crime.
Andrea Riseborough stayed in character between takes, keeping Nancy's hunched posture and limited eye contact—Buscemi later said he genuinely couldn't tell where performance ended.
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