A father and his daughter, suffering from major hearing loss, arrive at a construction site for work. They are soon taken hostage by a dangerous couple, and must work together to outsmart their captors and survive the night.
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...