Here the artist uses gender reversal as she observes: «I made him (the Interrogator) a woman so as to undermine him» thus adding comic relief to this already horrific scenario of torture, cruelty and masochism.
Situated somewhere between the recent adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time and a gender - reversal version of A Monster Calls, this coming - of - age drama could use a lighter touch while targeting its mix of fantasy and reality at teenagers.