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Hollywood Fringe: The Liftist


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What does it mean to care—when you’re the only one who notices?

Ashley has spent her life being the one who does:
the daughter, the overachiever, the partner who holds everything together.

She asks for one small thing in return:
put the toilet seat down.

The Liftist is a bilingual Asian American dark comedy that follows one woman across forty years—through family, love, ambition, and the quiet exhaustion of always being the one who carries more.

From a cramped immigrant household to a Manhattan apartment, to a near-future hospital room where even the machines seem to understand her better than people do, Ashley begins to ask:

What happens when you stop doing the things no one asked you to do?