Cease
Synopsis
The sun is setting as the day draws to an end. We follow two young women in a solitary room as they attempt to disappear into thin air by consuming Nectar: an oily sap extracted from a strange plant. We follow them through what could be their final hour before they vanish. Cease is an audiovisual poem.
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