Writer and director Michael Dole and The Daughters bring Impress You to life with Stevan — a film about the quiet violence of trying to be someone you're not. The party you don't want to be at. The drink you don't want to hold. The version of yourself you perform to be seen, to be wanted, to be enough. Impress You is the moment before you know who you are, told from the inside of it.

This is moment progression. A destination undefined. A step toward external validation, and away from the inner spirit that was already enough. The journey of self-perception, distorted by everyone else's expectations of who you should be.

We find Stevan standing still at the centre of a fire, faceless figures dancing around him — the bright lights of a new world he's been pulled into. We follow him through torchlit forest, the focus shifting from his own intention to whatever is chasing it. We watch him submerge himself in water, hiding from his own reflection, the sea of emotion that holds the parts of us we're not ready to look at. A single flame floats on the surface beside him — a spirit, a beacon, the part of himself that hasn't gone out. He breaks the surface. He sees himself again.

A film about the masks we wear before we know our own face. About the long way home to yourself.