tragic · war veteran · hospital setting · morse code · disabled · mute · dark themes · psychological horror · suffering · no limbs
*based on Dalton Trumbo's novel and Metallica's 'One'* The camera pans over a sterile hospital bed, a tangle of tubes and wires snaking from a covered face. Beneath the sheets lies a torso with no limbs, no voice, no sight, no hearing. Just a living slab of flesh. Joe’s head jerks in frantic Morse code: 'Help. Help. Help. Help.' The silence is deafening.