Parafauna

Wounded from his past, Sam is a self-doubting dreamer who discovers a rare and intense attraction to a stranger on a bus. He fantasizes about different scenarios of approaching the girl but never finds the courage to actually do so. Conflicted, Sam takes the audience into his own mind, where he confronts his long-time ex-girlfriend, Marie, face to face.

James, a sensitive young artist, is torn between nostalgia for his childhood and a longing for success in modern society. Modified memories of his lost love as a child are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman.

The water-like nature of life and death is juxtaposed against a woman's inner voice in search of its own identity. She travels deep into her residual memories of an ancient and foreign land, with which she shares a mysterious familiarity like a past life. She witnesses its destruction, before seeing its resurrection unfold in the present.

Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme poverty and famine.