She saves an alien who can't feel. Her husband can't move. She feels everything.
A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions.
Acting
Louise Martin's restrained grief carries entire worlds
Direction
Saburov finds infinity in small spaces
Director
Mikhail Saburov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 19-minute runtime forces emotional compression — every silence carries the weight of feature-length grief.
Part of a wave of post-2016 indie sci-fi using aliens to examine marginalized emotional labor, following Arrival's influence.
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