The film premiered at the South By Southwest Film Festival on March 9, 2025, where it received the Special Jury Award in Narrative Feature Competition.[1]
Premise
After she is told she has a curse that can be removed for a payment of $1,000 and the sacrifice of a baby lamb, sex worker and ingénue AP sets out on her moped across the pre-milleniumalternate reality city of Trashtown, United States to try and earn enough money to lift it.[2][3][4] Throughout her journey she encounters a series of bizarre, larger than life characters that force her to navigate the pervasively transactional reality of her world.[5][6] Sriram describes the film as "neo-camp" and American New Wave revival.[7] The film's journey through the night structure has been compared to film's like After Hours and Good Time,[8] and its visual iconography of the loosely follows the Fool's Journey of the Tarot.[9][10]
Sriram's inspiration for the style of the film includes films such as Angel and Crimes of Passion, and the works of John Waters, Gregg Araki, and Jim Jarmusch.[7][12][5] The film was shot on super 16mm.[13][14] The film was inspired by a previous relationship of Sriram, with her stating: "I had this breakup happen in my late 20s, and it was because a psychic told me that if I didn't dump my boyfriend, I was going to get really sick and wasn't going to have the career I was supposed to have. So I called him and said, ‘OK, the psychic says we have to break up.’ I got off the phone and felt like an insane person, because who has a call with a psychic who's like, ‘Do this life-changing thing,’ and then you immediately do it? So I felt very gullible and naive. I was heartbroken, and I started writing scenes."[15] The film's title was described as a riff on the term "fuck boy".[16] The film's poster was illustrated by Canadian artist Suspiria Vilchez.[17]
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