A burned-out cop from the midwest, Colton Riggs, finds his boring, Maltese lifestyle turned upside down when he suddenly finds himself catapulted into a web of high-stakes international espionage.
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...