

Eight minutes to destroy a decade of friendship. Buckle up.
A restless college senior seeks help when her car fails, stranding her childhood friends, as uncomfortable truths put the future of their friendship into question.
Acting
Simone and Strauss weaponize passive aggression brilliantly.
Writing
Chen packs a feature's worth of subtext into eight minutes.

Director
Cassidy Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cassidy Chen made this as her USC thesis project, shot in a single location with natural light to force performances front and center.
The car never appears on screen — Chen intentionally kept the budget constraint that broke the production as the film's central invisible character.