CLOVEN

When Dana, a hardened American war journalist, returns with her husband Makai to his ancestral village for a funeral, she expects heat, mourning, and dust. Instead, she finds a land heavy with rot and silence, where the air itself feels haunted, and the villagers whisper of something that walks on cloven hooves after sundown.

Beneath the soil, something ancient stirs.
A spirit called Dame Sabot, the Lady Clog, half woman, half goat, and wholly vengeance. Once a gifted midwife, burned alive by Makai's forefathers for a crime she did not commit. Now, she rises for retribution, her curse gnawing at every male born of that bloodline.

As Makai's mind begins to fracture and shadows creep into Dana's waking world, reason dissolves into dread. The jungle watches. Drums echo with no hands to strike them. Children vanish beneath the lake where the midwife's bones are said to sleep.

To end the curse, Dana must descend into the depths of ancestral memory, guided by a cryptic old woman and a boy who may not be alive, to face the truth buried beneath centuries of silence. What she finds will blur the line between the living and the dead, grief and madness, guilt and justice.

Cloven is a meditation on guilt, womanhood, and the haunting legacy of inherited violence.