Rapid Eye Movement is a short narrative film that follows 16-year-old Morgan on the pivotal night that marks the beginning of an abusive relationship. However, rather than unfolding in real-time, the story takes place within Morgan’s consciousness years later, as she compulsively relives that defining night. It is the night she and her partner first become intimate, an experience inextricably linked to another first: the moment her partner is physically violent. Through Morgans memory, we witness the emotional entanglement that will seemingly persist beyond this specific night, manifesting even within the altered reality of Morgan’s own mind.