Leave the World Behind

“There's no going back to normal.”

Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts) rents a Hamptons mansion for a family getaway, a long weekend away from email and screens. Then a Black couple, G.H. and Ruth Scott (Mahershala Ali and Myha'la), arrives at the door claiming they own the house and need shelter, as cell service vanishes and the news stops. Esmail builds the unease through small ruptures in the known world, keeping the camera close on faces as certainty drains away.