DIMINISH is a social horror that mines western cultural dispositions toward aging. To square off with the geriatric-set is to confront the inevitability of our own demise, reminding us that our bodies and minds will betray us, and in our senility, society will strip us of our agency. When the time comes that you’re no longer able to care for yourself, will someone be there to care for you?

When the owner of a venerated assisted living facility sells his building to a developer and promises it vacant, the last remaining elderly residents— discarded by family, society, state, and wholly stripped of their dignity— do all they can to avoid an early grave.