Joy (Max Eigenmann), an undocumented Filipina immigrant, is striving to secure a better life for her daughter Grace (an impish Jaeden Paige Boadilla) through a series of demoralising cleaning gigs for wealthy Londoners. When she stumbles into a job as a carer for a comatose cancer patient, it initially seems to be the lucky break she was waiting for. But dark secrets lurk in the shadowy corners of the dying man’s mansion. And his niece, Katherine (Leanne Best), is perhaps not quite what she seems.
The feature debut from British Filipino director Paris Zarcilla, this gothic-infused thriller leans a little too heavily on horror tropes and is rather too profligate when it comes to unearned jump scares. But peel back the cliches and there’s something interesting here: a gnawing sense of injustice and biting social commentary.
