The Wait
A darkly surreal family drama that uses magical thinking and denial to explore grief, mortality, and the desperate human need to resist loss.
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
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