An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Acting
Edi Gathegi's physically devastating solo performance.
Production
The cell itself becomes a suffocating third character.
Direction
Fjellman stretches 81 minutes into eternal psychological torture.
Director
Aaron Fjellman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately echoes real-world abuses in solitary confinement, particularly against Black inmates, with Hardin's character embodying the banality of carceral evil.
Gathegi prepared by spending hours in an actual constructed cell on set, methodically stripping away his own comfort to match Harlow's deterioration.
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