The Oxbow Cure

The Oxbow Cure is a 2013 Canadian independent film directed by Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas. It stars writer Claudia Dey as Lena, a woman who moves away from the city to a remote cottage in an attempt to heal herself and escape from her past. The film premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in the Independent Visions Competition on April 12, 2013 and had a limited theatrical release in Canada on August 23, 2013. Plot Lena is a middle-aged woman who has recently been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. In an attempt to come to terms with her transforming body, she leaves her home in the city and her ailing father to begin a new life at a remote cottage in Northern Ontario. There she begins to create an interior routine while exploring the natural world encircling the cottage. Lena learns of her father’s death and mourns the loss from afar. Later, she watches as an emaciated figure hobbles across the frozen lake outside her cottage. She locks the door and tries to push the image from her mind, but the figure remains a source of both fear and fascination. The following day, Lena hikes through the forest, seeking the creature. She finds a few signs: a claw-mark in the trunk of a tree, a patch of half-eaten berries.