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SHORT SYNOPSIS

Seethrough is a sci-fi feature film confronting paranormal powers and the exploration of the human mind with computer.

SYNOPSIS

Seethrough takes place in the world we know, but at the frontiers of things we do not yet understand. It is built around a scientific researcher named Richard Strong and his handicapped daughter, Sally, a promising young musician whose ability to play the cello was snatched from her in a ski lift accident which also killed her mother when she was seven years old. Richard works at the Uri Geller Kinetic I.T. Research Centre attached to Quebec University. He is involved in research exploring ways the human mind can interact with computers and issue commands on the basis of thought alone. One of his projects involved developing speech recognition software for one of the laboratory's sponsors, the Farlow Foundation. This body, with headquarters in Ireland, promotes the work of Catherine Farlow, a woman who has enjoyed extraordinary success for her writings in the field of popular psychology and self-improvement. She also has the reputation of being able to heal the sick. However, this can only take place during a lunar eclipse. Catherine Farlow is also blind.

Richard is told that members of the Farlow Foundation are to visit the laboratory to brief the team about a new research project. But Richard's boss warns him against trying to bring his daughter into contact with Catherine Farlow, since the Foundation insists on only working with people driven by anything other than professional interest.

The project involves monitoring Catherine Farlow's mental processes during the next lunar eclipse during which she will attempt to heal 12 carefully selected patients (we also find out that one of the selection criteria involves being able to make a 100,000 $ "donation" to the Foundation!).

The research team arrives at the Farlow Foundation headquarters, a rambling mansion set in extensive grounds, a few days before the eclipse. The "ceremony" is to take place at the nearby Newgrange prehistoric "passage tomb" site - an ancient ritualistic centre that predates the pyramids and is highly charged with so-far unexplained telluric and cosmic forces.

Throughout the lead-up to the event, we are constantly reminded of the approaching planetary alignment as the moon moves steadily towards the point at which it will pass into the shadow of the earth. Excitement builds in the "camp" around the site as the sick are wheeled towards the ancient standing stones guarding the entrance to the "passage tomb".

Despite his boss's interdiction, Richard manages to be with Sally himself during the "ceremony". As the moment arrives, and Catherine appears, with a long, black dress and her intensely dark glasses, excitement rises to a fever pitch. She reaches out to touch those who are so eagerly awaiting her healing hands when a scuffle takes place and, in order to stop herself from falling, she grabs hold of Richard - at which Catherine receives an enormous shock, as she starts crying out "I can see, I can see..."

 

Les Productions de film Dionysos inc.

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