After Care

Blending biting social critique with an uncanny claustrophobia and the feverish pressure of 'influencer culture', After Care interrogates what happens behind the scenes of what we see on our screens and what that reflects back at us, the audience. It asks, in a world full of harm, is there any point in caring about anybody but...

''Poor Grace. Poor, poor Grace.'' It''s what she wanted everybody to say. Grace is no longer famous. She sits alone in her Crown Heights apartment, endlessly watching reruns of herself on the reality TV show, Speed Daters. One night, a man breaks in through her window. A rare, still-obsessed fan or raging incel - Grace is unsure who he is. Before she can find out, he disappears. That same night, the world is rocked by the news that Anoushka, Grace''s reality show rival, has taken her own life, thrusting Grace back into the public eye. At first, Grace is thrilled to be relevant again. Driven by her desperation for love and attention, she clings to the dregs of her old life: her followers, her on-again, off-again boyfriend Cal and her unstable influencer income. But fame is fickle, and Grace''s image is fragile. When the fans begin to turn on her, Grace escapes with Cal to his isolated cabin in the middle of nowhere. Alone in the woods with nothing but each other, can they mend what''s broken without destroying what little is left?