

Your tattoos remember everything you tried to forget.
Acting
Eric Roberts delivers menace in under ten minutes of screen time.
Practical Effects
Tattoo designs that tell a story before dialogue does.
Director
Matthew Avery Berg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single location with natural lighting to emphasize the invasive, documentary-like intimacy of the tattoo process.
The film explores how Russian prison tattoos function as a criminal biography—Sasha literally reads Alexei's sins back to him.