Smells Like Soap is a haunting short film that dives headfirst into the obsessive, twisted side of love. When devotion festers into delusion, how far will someone go to keep the one they love?

Through the lens of Vela and Charlie’s romance, this film peels back the layers of intimacy, control, and religious guilt to reveal something tender—yet terrifying. What begins with quiet dances and whispered promises devolves into a surreal nightmare where bodily devotion becomes a ritual, and love turns deadly.

Anchored by themes of emotional dependency and trauma, Smells Like Soap is an unflinching portrait of a relationship where passion overrides boundaries—and a bath becomes the final baptism.