Brian Duffy

A deaf woman finds herself caught between an unforgiving world on the brink of ruin and an isolated commune in the grips of paranoia. The capture of a thief forces her into a life-changing choice.

Ted Evan’s hugely moving and highly creative work applies documentary aesthetics to speculative-fiction subject matter in order to chart the imagined decline of Deaf culture over four decades.

A death ruptures a close-knit deaf community and power dynamics shift as people begin to question the woman they’ve all looked up to. Her daughter is caught up in the changing currents, and the turmoil isn’t helped by the presence of a hearing newcomer.