Film

Cost of Living

Director

Emily Vortherms

Denial is a fickle landlord

In a small NYC apartment, Maggie, independent to a fault, is caught off guard when her obnoxiously reasonable boyfriend asks her to move in with him. Rather than deal with the question, Maggie becomes determined to discover the source of an increasingly strong and mysterious smell from next door. What she finds brings her face to face with an impossible-to-ignore example of what’s at stake if she refuses to abandon her stale but comfortable life.