A couple struggling to keep their relationship afloat, and their daughter finding difficult to fit in. Everything start collapsing when an attractive young woman comes to visit. Their profound problems and fragility surface, as a tragic downward spiral takes its inevitable course…
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...