Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
Acting
Sara West commits to increasingly unhinged desperation
Practical Effects
Sleep deprivation makeup that genuinely hurts to look at
Director
Daniel J. Phillips
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fatal Familial Insomnia is real—a prion disease with no cure, though it progresses over months not days.
The film borrows heavily from Australian Gothic tradition, using remote medical facilities as liminal spaces where science fails.
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