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
Maddalena finally seems to have found her place: she is an acclaimed writer, happily engaged to Vanni a loving, brilliant publisher. But when Valentina reappears, she finds herself questioning everything.
When a mysterious young woman comes to interview a paranoid man living in rural isolation, he is forced to confront his part in his daughter's murder.