Backroom Facials - - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith

She wakes up. She practices 20 minutes of tai chi in the "Food Court of Echoes." She reads discarded paperback romance novels by the light of a malfunctioning Exit sign. She has even befriended an Entity—a hulking, silent shadow figure she calls "Morris"—who leaves her fresh almond water every Tuesday.

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Faith spends the first third of the short trying to "optimize" her escape. She maps the walls. She counts her steps. She tries to monetize the dread. The film’s director, Jess H. Miller, told us in a press release: "Faith is us on a Sunday night, trying to meal-prep our way out of existential terror." She wakes up