The Housemaid meets The Lamb in a domestic fem-horror thriller that interrogates parasocial relationships, isolation and motherhood.
When Emily moves to Oxford for the sake of her girlfriend Tilly’s academic career, she has high hopes of their new life together. However, as she struggles to find a job that would give her the stability she needs to start a family, Emily becomes more and more disheartened.
After a chance meeting with Hank, a theology academic, she leaps at the chance to work as his research assistant. But over the weeks it becomes clear that Hank doesn’t need help with his research – he needs someone to help his heavily pregnant wife Kate with her tradwife account.
As her relationship with Tilly collapses and she moves into moves into Hank’s remote farmhouse, Emily takes on more and more of Kate’s role until it’s hard for her to know where she ends and Kate begins. Can she save both of them from Hank’s hunger for control?
When Emily moves to Oxford for the sake of her girlfriend Tilly’s academic career, she has high hopes of their new life together. However, as she struggles to find a job that would give her the stability she needs to start a family, Emily becomes more and more disheartened.
After a chance meeting with Hank, a theology academic, she leaps at the chance to work as his research assistant. But over the weeks it becomes clear that Hank doesn’t need help with his research – he needs someone to help his heavily pregnant wife Kate with her tradwife account.
As her relationship with Tilly collapses and she moves into moves into Hank’s remote farmhouse, Emily takes on more and more of Kate’s role until it’s hard for her to know where she ends and Kate begins. Can she save both of them from Hank’s hunger for control?