The topic should be universally understood, but an important insight that guided the story is that it takes on average 9 abuses before someone does something concrete about their abuse. These many abuses are represented by each kiss.

The effects are all in camera - only light post work was done to remove shine on the cheek prosthetics and a light grade. We had to shoot the scenes in reverse order as time restrictions meant we had to apply all the bruising and take them off one by one as the day went on, which added to the complexity of the production.