Alma and Alex, two adolescent sisters, are survivors of a catastrophic event. They live deep in the woods with their Mother, a strict, over-protective woman who has sheltered them from ominous presences, the Shadows, which live in the daylight and infest the world beyond the river, a border for Alma and Alex. When they follow Mother, out for hunting, Alma and Alex start a series of events which will make them discover the truth about the Shadows and their own reality.
Acting
Saskia Reeves weaponizes maternal warmth into something genuinely chilling.
Cinematography
Daylight as antagonist — gorgeous and deeply wrong simultaneously.
Direction
Lavagna trusts the audience to drown in ambiguity, no hand-holding.
Director
Carlo Lavagna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mia Threapleton is Kate Winslet's daughter; her first lead role and she's deliberately never watched her mother's films for this.
The daylight horror inverts The Others and Bird Box — here safety IS the trap, and vision itself becomes violent.
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