When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
Cinematography
Jim Jarmusch collaborator's grainy black-and-white Manhattan as liminal dreamscape.
Direction
Sara Driver's patient, feminist gaze in a male-dominated indie scene.
Acting
Suzanne Fletcher's haunted stillness — she barely blinks and you can't look away.
Director
Sara Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Produced by Sara Driver's then-partner Jim Jarmusch; this is the hidden feminist counterpoint to his deadpan masculinity.
Shot on weekends over two years with no budget — the 'ancient manuscript' was just whatever Chinese text they could borrow.
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