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The ambitious Christine is presenting her latest fashion collection. When the designer hastily leaves for a phone call, a stray dog jumps at her out of nowhere and covers her with ticks – shocked, she collapses. Months later: Since the attack, Christine has been suffering from a mysterious illness that leaves her weak and with memory lapses. When one day Diana shows up at her door, she can't remember hiring her as a domestic helper, but takes the resolute Filipina in. Diana soon becomes indispensable to the family, especially due to her miraculous healing rituals which help Christine immensely. But as the two women increasingly enter a symbiosis, the more something sinister bubbles beneath the surface. What is Diana hiding?

Following VIVARIUM, Lorcan Finnegan and his screenwriter Garret Shanley have teamed up again for a smart horror thriller that places its intense suspense in a highly topical social context.