Your dead mom keeps texting. Do you ghost back?
A grieving woman’s reality and memories begin to blur as her adoptive mother, Mother Nikki, reaches out to her from the spirit realm. She must speak to her mother one last time—or risk losing the ability to love herself and others.
Cinematography
Memory bleeds into reality like watercolor on wet paper.
Acting
Avy Blue's silences scream louder than dialogue ever could.
Director
Yasmin J. Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 2020s queer short cinema using supernatural frameworks to explore non-biological kinship and grief outside traditional funeral narratives.
The 14-minute runtime mirrors Aya's fractured sense of time—director Yasmin J. Lee deliberately structured scenes to feel like memory fragments rather than linear progression.
US
