Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Behind the walls of a quarantined city, a young girl waits for a father who was taken away and never came back.
What is Abigail about?
Abigail grows up inside a city sealed off from the outside world years earlier, after a mysterious illness spread through the population and forced the borders shut for good. Her father was among those infected, and he was removed from the household when Abigail was still a small child, leaving her to be raised in a place defined by restriction and quiet fear. The film follows Abigail as she comes of age inside this closed-off world, piecing together fragments of what happened to her family and why the city's rules exist the way they do. Rather than framing the outbreak as background noise, the story keeps returning to its human cost: severed families, guarded checkpoints, and a generation raised without ever knowing life before the sickness. The adventure-tinged plot builds toward Abigail confronting the truth about her father, and about the world that has kept her contained for as long as she can remember.
Cast & crew
Alisha Weir takes the title role, carrying much of the film's emotional core as a girl who has known no life outside the quarantine. Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, and Kathryn Newton appear in supporting parts, with William Catlett, Kevin Durand, and Giancarlo Esposito filling out the wider cast around the sealed city's inhabitants and authorities.
Context & significance
Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett built the film's world around the idea of an epidemic used less as horror-movie shorthand and more as a lasting social wound, shaping how the characters relate to trust, authority, and each other years after the initial outbreak. That choice gives the 2024 release a slower, more atmospheric build than a typical adventure-fantasy premise might suggest.
Where & how to watch
Abigail is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Persian-speaking households a way to follow the story in the language they're most comfortable with. Reading this page costs nothing; streaming the film itself requires signing into a K-Time account, and the platform's interface is fully usable in Farsi.