A struggling single mother, Joan, is forced to choose between morality and law when she finds out that a gentle farmhand, Adam, is more than what he seems while protecting her six year old daughter, Mary, and her ailing grandmother, Rose.
Acting
Dylan Ramsey's terrified gentleness will break your heart.
Direction
Bilal packs a feature's worth of dread into sixteen minutes.
Writing
The title's double meaning hits like a truck.
Director
Iram Parveen Bilal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 2017, the film directly responds to Trump's Muslim ban and 'build the wall' rhetoric—the title refers to both species extinction and the extinction of empathy.
Bilal shot this in one day with Ramsey never breaking character between takes; his exhaustion in the final scenes is genuine.
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