In 1984, a woman with a phantom pregnancy is exiled to a remote Catskills inn where she becomes convinced that she is the target of a mysterious woman in the woods who will stop at nothing to be a mother.
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...