Synopsis

Grandma Ruth lives alone at the end of Maple Lane. The town's children run past her dark house, but every Halloween she sets out candy, carves a gap-toothed pumpkin and waits. A small, silent trick-or-treater in a patched bedsheet knocks. They share cocoa, carve and laugh. At midnight he asks in crayon: "Same time next year?" As he walks down the porch steps, the wind lifts the sheet: it falls flat on the leaves, empty. Ruth is not surprised. Inside, she turns over a face-down frame: a 1952 photo of two children in bedsheets — "Ruthie & Tommy — Same time next year!"

Project members

• Director, Writer, EditorDa Li