An exploratory, non-linear film that utilises abstraction, repetition, and silence to reflect on how often Black British women are unheard and disregarded. Its cyclical structure reflects both a victim’s lived experience and the pre-colonial modes of storytelling.

The film employs a cyclical approach, drawing from the West African diasporic practice of the Ring Shout. Traditionally, the Ring Shout requires response and participation as a form of survival, resistance, and shared witnessing. Here, this structure is deliberately subverted, acting as a political statement. Calls for help in the form of a question are repeated throughout, yet no response is ever given, and eventually the ‘call’ becomes silent. This methodological choice allows absence and silence to highlight institutional failure and the continuous erasure. Through multisensory techniques including fragmented moving image, sound design, silence, and bodily gesture, the film prioritises embodied knowledge over explanation.

On the surface, it tells the story of the repetitive patterns a Black victim of domestic violence experiences that precede femicide, but also how systemically Black women have been treated and viewed in the media. The film is a critique of dominant narratives that tend to centre the perpetrators, sensationalise violence, and re-imagine how these stories are told.