Your childhood home called. It brought receipts.
Two childhood sweethearts return to the rural nowhere of their haunted youth to rebuild their lives before they lose their child forever.
Acting
Houghton and Hayler weaponize decades of shared history.
Direction
New turns 77 minutes into an eternity of dread.
Director
Chris New
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chris New is better known as an actor (Weekend, A Single Man); this micro-budget debut suggests he's been taking notes on how to weaponize small spaces.
The 'smallholding' itself — that stubborn British fantasy of self-sufficiency — becomes a character here, one that demands more than these broken people can give.
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