Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter as their world is thrown into chaos.
Acting
Zhalia Farmer, age 5, delivers devastating naturalism.
Direction
Held and George shoot in actual NYC tunnels.
Cinematography
Handheld chaos mirrors Nikki's unraveling panic.
Director
Celine Held
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Held and George are real-life partners who spent months living with NYC's tunnel community for research.
The film's real-time structure means Little's exhaustion is genuine—Farmer actually shot for hours in freezing conditions.
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