A cash-strapped couple hatch a plan to solve their money troubles by faking illness, but soon become embroiled in a toxic web of social media, violent criminality and spiralling greed.
Grimmfest says: A sourly funny, unflinchingly ruthless examination of influencer culture, social media grifting, medical malfeasance and greed, this shifts slowly but inexorably from droll socio-political satirical comedy to brutal crime drama. As the lead characters’ actions start to corrode their souls, and desperate self-preservation gives way increasingly to self-serving greed, the mood turns sulphurously noirish, and savage, until a bone-crunchingly brutal and bloody confrontation with a couple of con artist thieves who are essentially a cracked mirror image of themselves, exposes just how far they have fallen, how ruthless and utterly feral they have become. A moral tale for an increasingly amoral world, this terrifyingly topical, savagely cynical film is already creating shockwaves on the international festival circuit, and is likely to do the same at Grimmfest. Prepare to have your worst fears about the human condition not only confirmed, but proven overly optimistic. This one is… dark.