Terminal illness, a creepy teen, and a sheriff who knows too much. Recipe for disaster.
A young married couple moves to a secluded area to cope with the wife's terminal illness. As the wife's condition gets worse, the husband's growing detachment from her forces him into a tumultuous relationship with a local teenage girl whom he rescues from a sexual assault.
Acting
Tracy Coogan's deterioration is uncomfortably real.
Cinematography
Secluded woods become a suffocating character.
Director
Michael Escobedo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 18 days on a micro-budget in Ojai, California, with the director doubling as production designer.
The film inverts the 'final girl' trope—here the vulnerable young woman becomes an active agent of chaos, not survival.
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