What if instead of a zoom call to friends and colleagues – a hacker had stumbled across a way to use video-conferencing technology to connect with the other side. How would we use it? What would we say?
This is the inspiration for our story of Lera, a young Ukrainian refugee who has recently reached Ireland, who, fearing the worst, uses the dark-web séance software (The Orb) to discover that her sister Maryna has died in the conflict back home. Through The Orb she makes contact – and discovers that her sister Maryna is disoriented and stuck in an after-death limbo, based around the beach that they went to as children. The beach is in Berdyans’k – an Azov Sea resort currently under Russian occupation. Together, the sisters must find a way to come to terms with what has happened and find a way for both of them to move on…Film
