A musician recording an album in the woods finds eerie cassette tapes being left for him. On them, a woman researching an urban legend was being terrorized by a man and his vicious dog. Now, the same thing is happening to the musician.
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...