During a long journey, Astrid and Tristan stop at a remote cottage to spend the night. But they are not aware that in the woods nearby an antisocial trio are preparing to invade the home, bent on torture and murder.
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...