Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) has a condition. She suffers from a brain disorder called dyschronometria, which causes her to lose big chunks of time — an episode can happen anytime during the day, causing her to black out and wake minutes or hours later. She combats this by watching people in the apartment building across from her, making up stories about their lives, or by creating cassette tapes that she listens to constantly, to make sure she doesn’t zone out and suffer an episode. “Focus” is the word she constantly tells herself, grimly narrating even just her every movement, to make sure she’s present in the here and now.
But it doesn’t quite work. Frankie can’t hold down a job because her attention span is so poor, she’s been forced to leave her daughter with her mother-in-law, and her doctor tells her that she’s only got a few months left before her condition has completely deteriorated. And then there’s one troubling incident that she thinks she might have witnessed through an apartment window — a shocking bit of brutality that sends her down a dark and dangerous rabbit hole.
