“Fire Escape” is my senior thesis film, produced at SUNY Oswego in 2025. Following a toxic 3-year long relationship, I am now in a loving one. It has been a challenge to open up to my partner due to the cycle of betrayal I had grown familiar to. I decided to make my thesis film about this - the looming anxiety of abandonment, parallels between present and past, along with the complete impairment to be genuine about one’s own trauma, even to those we love.