Shackled is a 2012 short drama-thriller film directed by Nour Wazzi and starring Emilia Clarke and Hadley Fraser.
[1] Held captive by a circus in 1950s Louisiana, Malu is frantically rescued from her shackles by her husband.
As she waits anxiously in the darkness for her chance to escape, a disturbing truth she's hidden away seeps back into her consciousness.
One reviewer said of the film, "Although I never really understood what she was running away from the glossy almost fantasy like cinematography kept me watching until the very end.
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