

A curmudgeonly gay dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbor are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
Acting
Jeffers delivers a career-defining performance with zero pity
Writing
Dialogue that stings, then unexpectedly cradles you
Direction
Zuleta balances magical realism with brutal honesty
Director
Juan Felipe Zuleta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matthew Jeffers, who uses a wheelchair, insisted on zero camera tricks to 'explain' his body — the film treats his dwarfism as fact, not metaphor.
The alien-abduction subculture here mirrors real 2010s online communities where trauma survivors found alternative narratives for inexplicable pain.