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Singapore, in the late 1960s — the newly independent country is still grappling with its identity. In a dark room, a woman is trapped, being interrogated by a man. Through the course of one long night, identities blur, and ghosts from the future start to haunt their conversation. Time expands and contracts, bringing together traumas both social and personal in the ever emerging present.
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00:10Are you still there?
00:14I'm here. I'll always be here for you. I'll never be alone.
00:22Even after everything I've done to you?
00:25Even after everything you've done to me?
00:28I don't know what I can do.
00:32What do you want?
00:34I don't know.
00:37All my life, all I hear are other people's thoughts.
00:43All I want are other people's desires.
00:46All I dream are other people's dreams.
00:50Why do you do what you do?
00:53You sacrifice so much for what you do.
00:58Because I think there's a demon inside of me.
01:02It's a demon called freedom.
01:05But yet this is the same reason why I'm not free.
01:09That's because you tie your being to the time of others.
01:14If you could tie your being to the time of the stars, what would it be like?
01:21You could perceive a century of action in one moment.
01:25And the whole of human history.
01:28In one night?
01:30It's me.
01:32It's me.
01:34It's me.
01:35It's me.
01:45You're going to call me.

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