Devoted teenage boyfriend Marshall worries his girlfriend Iris, who has Asperger's Syndrome, might be losing her grip on reality when she tells him she sees another world.
Acting
Santos' layered performance—vulnerable, strange, utterly convincing
Direction
Stock trusts silence; every frame withholds and reveals simultaneously
Director
Simone Stock
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film deliberately never confirms Iris' reality, mirroring how neurodivergent people often have their perceptions dismissed by medical and intimate authority figures.
Stock developed this as her thesis film at York University; it won Best Short at ReelWorld and helped launch Santos' career before her Orphan Black role.