Seen Not Heard

2020

1h 31min

Anna, a frazzled woman dressed in a patient gown, as she sits on the edge of her hospital bed with her eyes closed. Her body is tense but still, with her fists clenched. Suddenly we flashback to a different time, many years ago. We are looking at the face of 18-year-old Anna. She sits on the edge of her bed. An older man walks into frame with a paper bag in his hand. "Hi sweetie, how was your day?" the man says as he blindfolds the young woman, intimately caressing the side of her face as he does so. The scene opens on an 18-year-old girl, Aubrey, as she leaves her family's house ... casually saying goodbye to her parents. When she gets safely inside her car, she pulls off the baggy sweater she is wearing to reveal a skimpy top. She is actually planning to meet up with a man she's been chatting with.