Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check up on toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canadian border, and deliver Jay (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) home to his mother's house in Detroit. The trip takes a turn for the weird as they begin to suspect they are trapped.
Cinematography
Bleached-out border landscapes that feel actively hostile.
Acting
Kellner and Moss-Bachrach weaponize passive-aggressive intimacy.
Direction
McCleave turns budget constraints into creeping dread.
Director
Leslie McCleave
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2000s wave of micro-budget American indie films exploring geographical and psychological borders.
The toxic waste sites mirror the characters' contaminated relationship—polluted ground neither can leave nor fix.
US
