ALEX D DUCHENE

Deborah sits on a flight back to Toronto, reeling from meeting her half-brother David for the first time. She grapples with her identity and past, haunted by severe childhood abuse and unresolved trauma. The revelations that David brings confirm what she always knew deep down.​ As she struggles with this new understanding of her past, Deborah questions her life and memories resurface through dream.

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This, a mysterious birthmark, plus a lifetime of mystical experiences that Deborah has dismissed as madness or survival tactics and coping mechanisms. She calls it the knowing. 

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October 7, 2023, Israel is attacked by Hamas and war breaks out. The news jolts Deborah into action which leads her to Israel. There, she embarks on a frantic journey to uncover an astonishing truth. This discovery reframes her understanding of herself.

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Deborah returns home with clarity about both mystical and psychological truths that have shaped her existence. She returns home transformed with newfound agency over her story and life.

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A convergence of ancestral memory, personal survival, and rebirth.