When Zehra and İbrahim, a couple adjusting to new parenthood, argue over a coffee table, it seems like a harmless domestic spat. Wanting to assert himself for once, İbrahim insists on buying it. But when he’s left alone to assemble it, he makes a single irreversible mistake — and begins spiraling into a pit of lies, panic, and performative calm as he tries to hide the truth from the people he loves the most.

Home movies usually contain scenes of intimate happiness, but they can also be witness to the purest horror. And that’s precisely the case with 1974, a found footage film with a grainy texture and an unsettling soundtrack, where a bunch of 8mm tapes reveal the horrifying events experienced by a newlywed couple that disappeared in Mexico in the mid-seventies.