Catherine Bray Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) is a young single mother struggling to make enough money, having just been fired from her job as a gas station attendant.
Finding another gig isn’t going to be easy. Gainful employment is a tough ask for Frankie, who is living with a rare degenerative brain condition called dyschronometria, meaning she has problems with perceiving the passing of time.
Her brain is essentially the unreliable narrator of her own reality. Like any noir hero worth their salt, Frankie makes audio cassettes to help her organize her thoughts about “a life lived in no specific order,” as she puts it on one tape.
This is the promising jumping-off point for a stylish low-budget mystery, directed by electrician-turned-filmmaker Ryan J. Sloan, which finds time along the way to riff on everything from “Memento” to “Videodrome.” In the best traditions of film noir, the initial offer which will help the protagonist out of a tough spot seems too good to be true.
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