After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan. Old wounds resurface as the sisters attempt to pick up the pieces of the rivalry that broke them apart.
Acting
Arterton and Wilson's volcanic sister chemistry
Production
Theatrical intimacy that refuses cinematic expansion
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes NASA jargon as emotional armor
Director
Ian Rickson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Originally a 2020 Royal Court Theatre production shut down by COVID; this film version was shot on the empty stage with the original cast and crew in bubble conditions.
The title weaponizes Thoreau's retreat-romanticism against itself—here, the woods are where you go when activism fails, not where you find purity.
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