Meals and transportation will be covered. The final film will be screened at the Toronto Met Film Festival before a crowd of over 1000. The film will be submitted to additional festivals throughout 2026. We can accept union and non-union actors through our student agreement with ACTRA. This is a student film and no permit is required. Actors will receive a copy of the finished film for their demo reel.

Please be advised that the film includes a brief nude scene, from behind, to be performed by "Dad". This scene will be filmed on a closed set with an intimacy coordinator present, and all performers will be fully briefed and must give explicit consent prior to filming. No minors will be exposed to or involved in any nudity.

When 11-year-old Veera is told to stomach the grime crusted across her dinner plate, she refuses to swallow her family's eerie complacency... until she sees silence is all that protects them as her father unravels.

When hungry 11-year-old Veera is served dinner on a grimy, unwashed plate covered in crust, her protests are met with something even more eerily disturbing: her mother’s quiet, unyielding command, “Eat around it.” Confused by her family’s refusal to acknowledge the rot, Veera rejects the meal and the unsettling calm that surrounds it, retreating to her room. But her small rebellion unspools into a long night of buried truths, unraveling alongside Veera’s own understanding. Awakened by strange clattering from the kitchen, she finds her father, naked, confused, standing in a flood of dishwater, methodically scrubbing the same blackened pan. Oblivious to his state, he kindly offers her a Pop-Tart, still melting in its plastic wrapper. In the dim kitchen light, Veera peels off the black sludge and eats. Her protest swallowed, she joins the quiet choreography of her mother and sister, a family
desperately shielding their father from the truth of his own Alzheimer’s.