In this chillingly brief horror short, a young man’s world fractures into a waking nightmare when a routine encounter spirals into psychological terror. The film follows a protagonist portrayed by Cabin Manley, whose fragile mental state is pushed to the breaking point after a series of unsettling events. As he struggles to distinguish reality from hallucination, his desperate attempts to maintain control attract the attention of two enigmatic figures, played by Aidan Brown and Caleb Ball, whose motives remain shrouded in menace. Directed by Cabin Manley, who also wrote the screenplay, this eight-minute descent into dread masterfully builds an atmosphere of claustrophobic anxiety and mounting paranoia. With no time for exposition, the story relies on visceral imagery and a relentless sense of unease, trapping viewers in the protagonist’s disoriented perspective. As the line between victim and perpetrator blurs, the film asks whether the true horror lies in the threats around us or the demons within. Distraught is a compact, unsettling experience that lingers long after its final frame.