Eleven minutes to break your heart and rebuild it — disability, desire, and the mess of love.
In this superb, understated film, writer-actor Daniel Monks (Pulse, SFF 2017) plays a gay man unsure if it’s his partner or his disability causing their relationship to fail.
Acting
Daniel Monks' physicality and restraint — every micro-expression cuts deep.
Direction
Cruz-Martin lets silence do the screaming; no moment feels wasted.
Director
Stevie Cruz-Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Monks, who has a disability himself, co-wrote the script to challenge the 'inspiration porn' trope where disabled characters exist to teach abled people lessons.
The film deliberately never shows James's perspective — forcing viewers to sit with Matt's uncertainty, mirroring how disabled people are often denied narrative agency in relationships.
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