Aral Sea Productions

Ten days before the millennium, Hope, a single mother, arrives in London with her two infants, clutching only the clothes on their backs. Escaping a haunted past, she seeks refuge in a city gripped by Y2K paranoia. A charismatic stranger offers sanctuary, but as Hope navigates an uncertain future in unfamiliar streets, she uncovers his chilling motives. The threat to her family dwarfs the feared technological collapse. In a pulse-pounding race against time, Hope must protect her children at any cost, no matter the personal sacrifice.

In 1995, as France returned to nuclear testing in Polynesia, Tahitian protests ignited beneath a global fantasy of turquoise waters and effortless escape. The radiant image of paradise fractured, revealing the radioactive truth that had shaped the islands for decades.

Revisiting Jean Baudrillard’s provocative claim that “The Gulf War did not take place,” the film reactivates archival material 30 years later, uncovering a chaotic and human reality behind the media spectacle.

In a post-agricultural landscape reclaimed by nature, a lone figure wanders through echoes of a fading world, and among another that is newly emerging.