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Margaret (Creator/RebeccaHall) is a traumatized scientist with a perfectly ordered life. She has one daughter, Abbie (Grace Kaufman). Then her ex-boyfriend, David (Creator/TimRoth), comes back into her life, revealing the horrors of Margaret's past.

A 2022 film, it premiered at Platform/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by Creator/{{IFC}} Midnight, who released the movie in August 2022.

* MamaBear: Margaret is an extreme KnightTemplarParent to ''both'' her children, even though her son [[spoiler:was presumably murdered]] around twenty years ago at least.
** Also Deconstructed. When Margaret makes a declaration of protection to Abbie, the latter points out that the speech, and the feelings behind it, do nothing except intimidate her a little bit, and are just to make Margaret feel better about herself.

A 2022 film, it premiered at UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by Creator/{{IFC}} Midnight, who released the movie in August 2022.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Margaret disembowels David and really does find Ben inside of him and takes him home, leading to a brightly-lit and upbeat epilogue of Abbie accepting the baby as her brother, thanking Margaret for her behavior, and preparing to leave for college, which can be interpreted as an hallucination from Margaret while she's dying or in jail.]]

Margaret (Creator/RebeccaHall) is a traumatized scientist with a perfectly ordered life. She has one daughter, Abbie (Grace Kaufman). Then her ex-husband, David (Creator/TimRoth), comes back into her life, revealing the horrors of Margaret's past.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler:The most likely interpretation of Margaret hearing a baby's cries when she listens to David's stomach and of seeing herself reunited with Ben.]]

* AdultFear: Abbie has a bad accident on a bicycle while Margaret is with her boyfriend, making Margaret panicked and guilty, and reacting overprotectively around Abbie. [[spoiler:This stems from her trauma with David -- David had made it clear that he didn't want children, but since he'd ignored Ben, Margaret feels safe enough to leave the child at home while she left to get supplies. When she returned home, two of Ben's fingers were on the kitchen counter, the baby himself was missing, and David made cryptic comments about eating him.]] Abbie, not knowing her mother's history, simply believes that Margaret is too overprotective because she'll be lonely once she leaves for college.

* LeftHanging: The origin of the adult tooth that Abbie finds in her belongings is never explained.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter:

* RealAfterAll: There's quite a lot of {{foreshadowing}} which suggests that Margaret is merely hallucinating David's presence back in her life. When they talk, they are frequently alone together, nobody else really seems to acknowledge his existence, and he never behaves violently towards her in a way that would confirm he's actually there. It's a twist that, no, he's really there, and [[spoiler:the presence that Margaret is actually (probably) hallucinating is much scarier, but sadder.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Margaret rescues her infant son and repairs her relationship with her daughter. It is a very happy ending, all things considered. But the final shot also suggests that the trauma will stay with her despite the triumphs.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[Margaret rescues her infant son and repairs her relationship with her daughter. It is a very happy ending, all things considered. But the final shot also suggests that the trauma will stay with her despite the triumphs.]]

* EatsBabies: [[spoiler:David apparently ate his and Margaret's own son.]]

* NonActionBigBad: David is actually hardly ever violent towards Margaret. He prefers emotionally torturing her into performing what he calls "kindnesses" (extreme acts of emotional or physical self-harm) via psychological abuse. Even at the end, [[spoiler:he puts up very little fight to Margaret's attempt to ''disembowel'' him, only trying to talk her out of it verbally.]]

* FamilialCannibalismSurpise: [[spoiler:Deconstructed. David apparently ate his and Margaret's son Ben, and did so specifically so he could continue to torment her.]]

* GlorifiedSpermDonor: After the horrors of her marriage to David and her son Ben's death, Margaret mentions that Abbie's father is "nobody" and she went out and got pregnant by a random stranger so that she wouldn't have to share her other child.

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A 2022 film, it premiered at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by Creator/{{IFC}} Midnight, who released the movie in August 2022.