A brilliant high school senior is counting the days until she can leave her abusive foster home behind for Yale. But her plans are interrupted when a mysterious new teacher with a sinister past becomes disturbingly fixated on her.
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...