A modern fairy tale about how distrust in the collective society divides a family and how Jill many years later learns about what there is left to trust.
Acting
Dual Jill performances create haunting continuity across decades.
Writing
Fairy tale structure grounds messy human drama.
Director
Steven Michael Hayes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The dual casting mirrors how we become strangers to our younger selves — the film literalizes memory as performance.
Released during pandemic-era isolation, its themes of societal distrust hit differently than Hayes likely intended during development.