STRANGE FISH

2022, short film. Story by, Writer.

A young Thai-American girl lives in the insular world of her mother’s restaurant where, night after night, a man comes to stare out the window. The daughter secretly suspects that he could be her estranged father while her mother suspects that he is an immigration officer come to deport her. As they both seek to verify their own theories, they are confronted by the greater truths of the other’s long suppressed fears and longings.

(An AFI Conservatory production exercise.)