Directed by Seth A. Smith (Lowlife) and written by Darcy Spidle, this is yet another story of a coastal town that is filled with menace, a place where people should not go. After the death of her husband Peter (Andrew Gillis), Beth (Danika Vandersteen) and her son Lowen (Woodrow Graves, the son of Smith and producer Nancy Urich) retreat from life to live in a beach house. Perhaps the new surroundings will ease her grief and give her time to explore her art, paper marbling, the art of transforming paper with water, collage and painting.

As Lowen begins to act out — how else would a child deal with the death of his father? — Beth is menaced by a strange man named Joseph (Terrance Murray). He pushes her over the edge as she abandons her son and tries to drown herself, leaving him alone with a beach filled with whatever the residents of this town may be.

If you’re looking for something fast and easy to figure out, this is not that movie. This is a slow scene of people wandering open spaces, living in lonely houses, and answering telephone calls from ghosts. It is swirling paint, walking into the ocean, and flashbacks that feel tense when they should be freeing. Beth’s mother ((Andrea Kenyon) told her that she couldn’t care for her son correctly, and we wondered, “Is she right?” What will happen to a boy left alone, wandering the spectral shores of a town that feels between death and whatever is next?

Yes, I can see how people could hate this movie as easily as they love it.

You can watch this on Tubi.