When a desperate father discovers his daughter’s favorite cake decoration is illegal, he descends into a confectionery black market. Now he must make the ultimate parenting choice: break a birthday promise or break the law?
UNBOUND is the award-winning story that takes place in turn-of-the-century Japan, where a young girl sacrifices her freedom in order to save her ailing father by becoming a factory worker. Surrounded by fear and foes, she is soon entangled in an unexpected metamorphosis as she transforms into a silkworm.
A Period Western Proof-of-Concept. Shot on-location in the Badlands of North Dakota.