Continuing Ben Rivers' signature poetic and experimental cinematic language, as well as his ongoing exploration of the relationship between humanity and nature, the short film combines naturalistic sound design with an unsettling, asymmetrical windscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera follows Tang Wei as she ventures into the wilderness. Restless and adrift, she is haunted by the sense that something essential is missing.

Drawn by an unspoken force, she arrives at a secluded oasis. She does not know what she is searching for, nor why she has come. She only knows that she must leave behind everything familiar, allowing her inner self to dissolve into the natural world until the two become one.

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