Best Drama (Short) 2019 Winner

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Two strangers with broken family ties, meet online and share a road trip to the remote Outer Hebrides. Marina is a young Romanian woman, desperate to find her child, Murdoch, a Scottish musician, reluctant to return for his estranged father’s funeral. As they pass through the stark beauty of a landscape that mirrors their shared sense of isolation, bold shifts in timeframe reveal what each character imagines, hopes, or fears, they might do on reaching the islands. As they travel, these two strangers take the risk of sharing their innermost fears, opening up the possibility of a different future.