Nebulous

After waking from a coma with no memory of the last sixteen years, Ekus is thrown into a life he does not recognize. The last thing he remembers is trying to help his pregnant wife, Maya, during a catastrophic heat wave that sent them to a crowded church turned cooling center. In his memory, she was in labor, the city was collapsing under extreme heat, and everything changed in a moment of crisis.

When Ekus wakes, he finds himself married to Faye, a polished woman who feels like a stranger to him. Ekus becomes fixated on his past with Maya as she represents the last version of his life that still feels real. The more he searches for answers, the more Ekus realizes memory is not the only thing being distorted. He turns to damaged photographs, and digitally altered images for answers of what happened between him and Maya. As Faye struggles with loving a man who cannot fully see her, Ekus reconnects with friends he met during that crisis. Through their memories, he begins to revisit the past from a safer place.

Later on, Ekus and Faye wind down from dinner and Faye continues digitaly enhancing pictures. As the couple reimagine their past. they are forced to confront how each has avoided change in a different way. Ekus struggles to accept change by letting go of who he thinks he should be. Faye struggles to accept who she is does not mean she abandons who she once was. Each failing to see that they have become a reflection of what the other lacks.

Written by Carlie Raymond