Alex Nystrom

A young Ojibwe photographer stubbornly takes on the responsibility of keeping a sacred fire alive for four consecutive days and nights in mourning of his father. His father's spirit tries to reach him from the other side.

An allegorical day-in-the-life adventure lived through the eyes of a naive, determined Yasmeen in search of her missing homework assignment, while the pressures of the adult world threaten her and her rural mountain village in Pakistan.

In the seedy back halls of a Little Saigon convenience store, a young customer reanimates his dead father for one last conversation... awakening phantoms of unspoken grief.