How Brief

HOW BRIEF is a disappearing act set over the course of one night in 1962 when a restless woman returns to her childhood home for the last time, inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Connie Converse.

Cast

Tess Degenstein

as Foster

Gray Powell

as James

Tatiana Maslany

as Janie

Susinn McFarlen

as Mother

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