The movie was produced and co-written (with director Colin West by lead actress Sylvie Mix, her first producing credit, second writing credit, and third acting credit.
In a 2021 interview with AIPT Comics, Colin West spoke about the origins of the project and how it evolved in the shooting process: "Sylvie Mix and I have been friends for like 10 years or so. And for the longest time I have known that Sylvie's a total rockstar and I wanted to work with her. We had such a great experience to like shooting a short film together. There was a great collaborative process. She had this idea and I was also writing a graphic novel at the time about these twins. And there was this kid who was getting abused and so forth. And we ended up kind of like really connecting over some of these themes and how trauma can sort of ripple out to affect an entire community.
It was clear that there were these seeds that we kind of wanted to plant and grow, but it was like figuring out how to do that. Through these long FaceTime conversations, we were really just talking about things that we cared about and stuff that was interesting to us and influences or movies that we liked and quickly kind of latched on to like genre.
And maybe this is like a ghost story in the way that like A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) or A Ghost Story (2017). And those things kind of all ended up kind of blending together into this basically we wrote this like fifty-page novella.
It wasn't even a script. It was basically like, this very kind of cerebral visceral kind of verbose written novella script that would also have some shots in it, written into it and stuff like that. It was very weird, but like very little dialogue.
And so we kept that like conversational tone as we went into the production process and the editing process as well. So, the writing process never stopped for us. It was really continual and it wasn't like, oh, we've got the perfect script. Now we just need to shoot it. It was far more organic than that."