Danielle Afuang

When their teacher disappears, school children cradle guns in their arms instead of books.

Laya is a young professional photographer who has drifted away from her family. Her father has fallen ill, but she hasn’t once come to visit him at the hospital. Her mother, who left their family when Laya was a child, returns to urge Laya to make amends with her father, but Laya’s pain goes deeper than her mother suspects. Laya is sent to the provinces to document a ritual of a disappearing indigenous tribe, and there, she inadvertently comes face to face with her own demons as she observes the relationships of the last remaining members of this dying culture.

A high school movie featuring a mix of real students and professional actors that deals with the experience of finding one's identity in a country that barely has one.