Psychological drama and meta-narrative set during the making of Beneath a Mother’s Feet. A sound recordist arrives on set carrying an unimaginable secret: the man he loves lies dead in his apartment.

As filming unfolds, the story being captured through his headphones - of a woman contemplating escape from a life prescribed for her - begins to collide with his own. Moving between the intimacy of a forbidden relationship, the rhythms of a working film set and the aftermath of an irreversible act, 19 Hertz is a film about desire, repression and the terrifying distance between the lives we inhabit and the lives we might have lived.