Nanny: An Immigrant Drowned
Where is the horror in babysitting? Could it be the responsibility, temper tantrums, job insecurity, stepping on a concealed LEGO? For Aisha (Anna Diop), the horror is the threat of nanny-cams and the overbearing parents she works for. Dir. Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny follows Aisha, a new to the States Senegalese woman, who was recently hired by a white, Manhattanite couple, Amy and Adam, to govern their picky-eater daughter, Rose. It is not French lessons or skipped pay that haunts Aisha though, but the ancestral power, spirits, and violent visions the job awakens in her.