A podcast host desperately clings to an ever-shrinking audience in the zombie apocalypse.

Vinita (Kiran Deol) hosts a snarky post-apocalyptic podcast, hiding her fear behind an armor of ironic distance. Rabid “biters” roam the Earth, and Vinita's dwindling audience — including her traumatized siblings — live in quarantine. When her philandering ex Vincent (George Basil) suddenly arrives clutching a baby, Vinita's armor begins to crack. 

Writer-director Meera Menon’s low-budget thriller is an homage to zombie pioneer George Romero and a moving drama about the emotional toll of living through civilizational crisis. Like Romero, Menon uses the genre to confront contemporary horrors, stoking pandemic-era anxieties through a distinctly millennial sensibility. Deploying stark black-and-white cinematography and an eerie soundtrack, Menon conjures a clammy atmosphere of dread. Deol adds color to the darkness, locating Vinita's vulnerability under a veneer of disaffection and gallows humor.—Matt Cornell

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