Entertaining thriller about the perfect girl next door. Beautiful, friendly and a devout churchgoer, she believes in always doing good. but underneath the pleasant exterior is a ruthless woman, determined to get the lifestyle she thinks she deserves.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...