"House of the Spirits" meets "Brave New World" in this conversation between a spiritualist medium (Annie) from the past, her neuroscientist seventh generation descendent (Isabelle) from the future, and Honor, a psychiatrist, who lived in the present time. Meeting in dreams stimulated by a miracle psychiatric drug, Annie tells the story of her life to Isabelle, and we see the echoing similarities between their worries and pre-occupations, despite the very different times they live in. At the end, we see the surprising ways in which their stories are connected.

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Tags: Honor's Ghost, Voula Grand, ABNA Semifinalist 2008