Bam Howard Gilman Opera House

A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for maintaining instruments lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

Drawing on the deep dread of so-called “liminal” spaces—the non-places of depopulated office buildings and parking lots of late capitalist America—this feature debut from 20-year-old Kane Parsons was inspired by a sprawling fictional location first chronicled in a 2019 thread.

Lina, an accomplished Argentine artist and designer, is in Switzerland to receive an award when she jumps from a bridge into the icy waters below. The incident leaves her with a paralyzing fear of water and a growing sense of isolation that threatens both her career and her personal life.