A beautiful native guide splits the loyalties of two guides seeking the sky burial platforms from the Orphan Tsunami of 1700. But they found too late that she will never let them leave the forest alive.
Practical Effects
Sky burial platforms built with obsessive period detail.
Acting
Elizabeth Frances owns every frame with terrifying stillness.
Director
Arthur Egeli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 was a real event—a Japanese tsunami with no local earthquake, later traced to a Cascadia subduction zone rupture. The film weaponizes this erased history.
Elizabeth Frances is Waccamaw Siouan; her casting as Tokala deliberately subverts the 'mystical Native woman' trope by making her monstrous on her own terms.
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