Holly and Matthew find solace and begin to create something beautiful, but as time passes and they delve deeper into each other's lives they're drawn back to Matthew's childhood home. Here, they encounter Matthew's sickly mother Loralei, who attempts to destroy their mystique of love and the bonds they have tentatively made. This thrusts the loving couple into a spiraling nightmare of lies and deceit, testing their loyalty and redefining their definition of family.
Fearsomely committed performances by the principals are heightened further by [Jack] James' lensing, which is intimate to the brink of distortion - favoring extreme closeups and fields of woozily uneven focus
