A new trailer for Mārama has surfaced, and this isn’t your polite, candlelit gothic, it’s a story that drags its past into the light and dares it to bleed.

Marking the feature debut of Māori writer-director Taratoa Stappard, the film follows a young Māori woman pulled from New Zealand to Victorian England, where the truth behind her family’s history isn’t just terrifying, it’s the kind of thing you don’t simply walk away from.

Set against the cold stone and colder people of 1859 Yorkshire, the story builds toward something inevitable: confrontation. The kind where titles and status don’t mean a damn thing when the past comes knocking with intent

Ariāna Osborne leads the charge alongside Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Umi Myers (Bob Marley: One Love), anchoring a film that’s already made the rounds at major festivals, including its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. So yeah, this one’s been travelling, like Mārama herself, and it’s picked up attention like a storm gathering on the horizon.

Mārama opens April 17 in New York and Los Angeles before spreading further, and it looks ready to leave a tattooed mark.