Filmmaker Statement

I made this short film to explore the quiet, complicated space where love and death meet and to ask what might change if we were better at communicating what’s in our hearts. At its core, the story is about two people who love each other deeply, but whose connection is tested by the unrelenting reality of a terminal illness. When one of them receives the diagnosis, she makes the painful decision to push her partner away, not because she’s stopped loving her, but because she can't bear the thought of being watched as she slowly fades, of being remembered in decline. In her mind, cutting things off is a mercy. But to do that, she has to become someone cold, even cruel, building walls made of bitterness so her partner won’t try to stay. That distortion, how grief and fear can turn someone into a version of themselves they don’t recognize is something I wanted to handle with tenderness and honesty.