- Adam, a 45-year-old painter, wrestles with the ghosts of his past, consumed by the weight of traumatic memories that drive him to the brink of suicide. Meanwhile, in a parallel dimension, ksms, a cosmic creature, grapples with the daunting ordeal of its own birth. Despite existing in separate realms, their shared anguish forms a cosmic connection, drawing them together in the liminal space between life and death. In this intersection of worlds, they discover a glimmer of hope and renewal in each other's presence. Through Adam's artistic expression, he immortalizes ksms in his latest painting, a poignant symbol of rebirth and the enduring cycle of life's complexities.
- Adam, a 45-year-old painter, lives his monotonous days immersed in a chaotic and noisy inner emptiness while being knocked out, in an infinite repetition, by his traumatic memories: the last argument with his late wife, Karen, victim of lung cancer, and a fatal car accident that, at 8:18pm on a rainy night, would take the life of the couple's eight-year-old son, Teo.
The guilt of being the driver and the impotence in the face of a terminal illness extinguished any possibility of happiness or a fresh start. Adam can no longer sustain being alive, nor can he find inspiration for his art, which often leads him to think about suicide.
At the same time he begins to give up his life, at 8:18 in the morning, in a silent white void and in another dimension, a cosmic creature without mouth, ears or hair, ksms, surrounded by a gelatinous involucre, with the same appearance of an amniotic sac, fights against its first trauma: birth. This creature, without any reference from the external environment, finds itself alone on the difficult journey of learning to live.
ksms and Adam begin to interfere in each other's universe through very high sound frequencies and morse signals due to common sensations such as anguish, anger and despair. The only moment they physically meet is in the gap between life and death, represented by the womb, where Adam is after a last suicide attempt, at 8:18pm.
They are for each other the only hope of saving themselves from this infinite cycle of solitude. Adam guides ksms to finally stand on its feet, immortalizes it in his latest painting displayed in a bright gallery, while ksms inspires him to start over.
ksms is hope that is reborn within each one. It is new life. Life that pulses. It is alive. And it is eternal.
For to be born is to declare death. To be reborn, life.
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