

8 minutes to break your heart? Challenge accepted.
A young man returns to his recently sold childhood home to reconnect with his past.
Direction
Walker turns empty rooms into emotional architecture.
Acting
Madden's silence speaks louder than dialogue ever could.
Director
Mari Walker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walker made this as part of AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, a program addressing Hollywood's massive gender gap in directing.
The runtime mirrors how quickly we lose access to our past—one sale, one afternoon, gone.