"An Empty Canvas"
Rehabilitated drug-addicts, Ava and Leo, attempt to ease their way back into reality, but not without facing devastating temptations.
Social & External
The people behind it
Caroline Hill
Ava
Zach Johnson
Leo
Raina Ford
Kennedy
Daniel Froster
Mark
In a cramped apartment that feels like it’s collapsing in on itself, two young men try to outrun addiction and each other. Jay is fighting for sobriety. Alex is fighting not to feel. When pills resurface between them, what starts as a familiar argument spirals into a breaking point that tests the limits of love, loyalty, and survival. Paperwings is an intimate, claustrophobic portrait of codependency, recovery, and the fragile hope of choosing to live.
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