A middle-class couple trying to solve the sudden disappearance of their toddler daughter, receive DVDs with recordings of their daily lives. Singapore police sets up surveillance around their home to catch the stalker, but the family begins to fall apart under scrutiny from all sides. Gifted Singaporean writer-director Yeo Siew Hua’s sharp psychological thriller stars Lee Kang-Sheng, famed for his Tsai Ming-Liang films. Reflecting on alienation, watching and being watched, where what is seen cannot be unseen, and how this shapes our identity and subjectivity. Through the scrutiny of a glass darkly it seems, ‘you just have to watch someone close enough and keep your eyes on him. At some point, even if he’s not a criminal, he will turn into one’.

Festival selection/awards: Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival 2024.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.

This film is screening as part of the East Asian Film Festival 2025.