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-esque psychological thriller takes the worst day of your worst decade and sticks in the middle of a time loop in the Mojave Desert.Imagine the worst day of your 20s. A day you spent wiping away snot from your nose after a shattered dream, the final collapse of a years-long situationship, or an exorbitant broker’s fee. A day where something didn’t justbut forced you to reshape your entire sense of self and being. Maybe you cried on your bathroom floor. You definitely called your mom.
In the middle of California’s Mojave Desert, on CA-190, we meet Clare , a 20-something leaving Los Angeles and driving back to her parents’ house in Iowa. She stops to get gas at the last service station for 72 miles ; has a very creepy encounter with an unsettling gas attendant , an unfortunately very familiar scene for any woman); and then her tire pops barely a mile down the road, sending her car crashing into a small boulder.
Her very encouraging mother suggests maybe doing it all by herself is the issue. “I’m not saying you need a man, I’m just saying people aren’t meant to be alone,” she tells Clare over the phone. In hindsight, this might be the most revealing and the most fucked up line of the entire film—but I can’t tell you why.without giving too much away, but it’s a gorgeous, spellbinding story that leaves you feeling like you’re figuring it out right alongside our heroine.
Like any lost 20-something who finds themself searching for meaning, Clare eventually finds purpose again—but only in trying to figure out what the hell is happening to her. She even uses her camera—the thing she thought she was bad at using!— to try and start piecing together the dozens of missing moments after she discovers she’s caught in a loop of the same road, gas station, factory, and her own broken down car.
Triplett said the indie thriller was actually inspired by how much she enjoys the desert. “I love going out to the desert, the desert is just such an otherworldly place,” she told Jezebel on Monday. “You can go out there and everything kind of looks the same, and these characters are just so unique and have such different social interactions than normal.”ends in a satisfying—but still unexpected!—way; it’s hopeful and peaceful, but still leaves you wondering what the fuck is going on.
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