01 / About the Film
Some build
empires on
borrowed ground.
Sable follows Sable "Smoke" Vanguard, a ruthless, brilliant fixer who runs a polished operations firm by day and quietly outmaneuvers the city's most powerful players by night. After a messy breakup cracks open her carefully controlled life, she is pulled into a tightening web of political pressure tied to the Governor's inner circle and a dangerous councilman who wants her either obedient or erased. When Montreal, a finance worker, stumbles onto a corruption trail and suddenly becomes the target of a midnight hunt, he has no choice but to reach for the one person who knows how to survive a system built to bury people. As threats close in, decoy moves get exposed too fast, trust starts to rot from the inside, and a federal agent offers help that feels like leverage, Sable and Montreal are forced into a fragile alliance where every step could be a setup and every ounce of emotion could become a weapon.
Themes
Control & Its Cost
What it takes to stay untouchable in a city where every handshake comes with a leash, and what you lose the moment you let anyone close enough to see the cracks.
Trust Under Pressure
The moment allies start looking like liabilities, decoy moves get exposed too fast, and the people you need most become the ones most likely to bury you.
Power vs. Survival
A fixer who outmaneuvers the powerful and a finance worker hunted by them, forced into a fragile alliance where survival means trusting someone the system designed to use.
Emotion as Weapon
When every ounce of feeling can be turned against you, the most dangerous thing two hunted people can do is start to care.
Vision
Sable is not a mystery to be solved. It is a pressure test watched in real time. The film follows a ruthless fixer and a hunted finance worker as a single chain of corruption pulls them into the same tightening trap, where political pressure, exposed decoys, and a federal agent whose help feels like leverage close in from every side. Every frame is designed to feel like the moment before a trap door opens, heavy, electric, and impossible to outrun.
Why This Story Matters
Sable is about what happens to people who live inside a system built to bury them. It follows a woman who learned to outmaneuver power from the inside, and a man who stumbled into its path with no armor at all. Together they expose how easily help can become leverage, how quickly trust rots under pressure, and how the line between survival and surrender gets thinner the moment someone starts to care. It is a thriller about two people reaching for each other in a city that wants them both erased.
About the Creator
Eugenia Drake
Director
Eugenia Drake has spent over a decade building a career across every layer of filmmaking, moving from special makeup effects and key makeup artistry on features like Megaboa, Shark Waters, and Get Close, to acting in Consequences and directing Park Bench, to stepping behind the camera as a director. Her hands on work on set taught her to read a frame before it was ever shot, to understand character from the skin outward, and to treat every detail as a story the audience feels before they can name it. That obsession with texture, mood, and the unspoken carried her straight into Sable, a film she describes as the one she has been preparing for her entire career. Sable gave her the canvas to merge everything she loves, the visual precision of makeup artistry, the emotional honesty she chased as an actor, and the directorial control to build a world that feels like Tampa at midnight, humid, dangerous, and impossible to shake. For Eugenia, Sable is not just a thriller. It is the culmination of a career spent learning how to make audiences feel something they cannot look away from.
Known For
Consequences
A Gunfighter's Deal
Get Close
Caroltyn
Finding Me
Megaboa
Shark Waters