Shattered Reflection

Christine turns forty alone in her penthouse; a woman at the height of her corporate career, but fraying beneath its impossible demands.

Champagne and cocaine fuel her desperate search for intimacy as she awaits the arrival of a male escort, convinced love can be delivered to her door.

Behind the façade of success lies a woman unravelled. Christine’s mind flickers between childhood trauma on her family’s cattle farm and the suffocating loneliness of boardrooms that never forgave her humanity. With no support, no space to be vulnerable, her brilliance curdles into paranoia, her confidence into delusion. Imaginary friends answer her calls, and memories blur into hallucinations she cannot escape.

Ivan, the escort, enters expecting a transaction but finds himself navigating the volatile storm of a woman broken by neglect, society’s and her own. Christine’s rage and tenderness entwine, her obsession shifting between control and collapse.

When Ivan’s boyfriend, Benjamin, arrives,…