Cindy Xu

My Silence, My Grave

In a claustrophobic apartment building, an acquiescent apartment manager, Julia, is tasked with cleaning out a unit following a series of gruesome rituals. A cursed encounter amid the gore finds her on the run from a cannibalistic killer, all while her grasp on reality disintegrates. On the surface, My Silence, My Grave is simple horror story about a woman trapped between losing her humanity and her life. But under the surface, where most of society's pervasive ills lie, it's a story about one woman's fight against a sordid system that pits marginalized peoples against each other. Through physical horror and psychological unease, Julia realizes that her own inaction has only served to hurt other minorities and to preserve the power of their oppressors.