Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City, finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage.
Acting
Anna Diop's face carries entire histories of longing.
Direction
Jusu weaponizes negative space like a language.
Cinematography
Water imagery that drowhes you without warning.
Director
Nikyatu Jusu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jusu's Mami Wata imagery draws from West African water spirit mythology, reframing 'ghost' tropes as ancestral communion.
The film was shot in the actual apartment building where Jusu's mother worked as a nanny for decades.
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