In this gothic melodrama, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis perpetually wake to find themselves haunted by their older and younger selves.

In this gothic melodrama, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis perpetually wake to find themselves haunted by their own apparitions and terrorized by markers of time. Isolated in their own screen space, each woman struggles to reclaim time from the gendered discourses of aging that conflate older women with a sense of invisibility and expiration.—anonymous