Paul Novotny

Mishka tells the story of a conflicted 13-year-old and her grim secrets. In the face of an unsettling reality, Mishka makes an alarming decision in a desperate attempt to revert her childhood self.

Kasha Sequoia Slavner, aka The Sunrise Storyteller, is an 18-year old filmmaker, photographer, entrepreneur, young global leader and peace advocate. As a concerned high school student, disillusioned and outraged by the negativity and powerlessness she felt as a consumer of mainstream media, Kasha was compelled to find an alternative narrative. On her 16th birthday on an ambitious mission to travel the world for six months with her mom, camera in hand and no clear road map, she finds herself intersecting with the lives of people determined to rise above adversity.

하비슨 여사의 그린하우스에서 수선공인 프레드가 화초 가지에 찔린다. 얼마 후 그는 맥박이 빨라지고 고열에 신음하며 쓰러지고, 곧 병원으로 옮겨지지만 그의 몸은 점점 썩어 들어가고 입에서 끔찍하게 생긴 벌레가 기어나온다. 여의사인 레이첼은 정체불명의 이 벌레를 실험실에 보관한다.