Synopsis: Empty Boxes

To know a thing is true and to feel a thing is true are two very different acts, acts that are at times impossible to reconcile. In certain mental illnesses, it can be all too easy to know a thing to be true and yet be unable to really grasp that, to hold it in your heart, when all the force of your soul weighs upon you to turn against fact. There are senses beyond what we can articulate, and the ghosts of old patterns and habits trail our every step and act. In the world as it is, Raz floats through the crowd, adrift in his own personal sea of warring thoughts and obsessions. In the world beyond that, however, when disease and chaos has all-but stripped the city of life and left precious little behind, he is free to explore the beauty of solitude. As the unbearable present and idyllic future converge, Raz must navigate the peculiar pitfalls of Toronto's landscape as well as the treacheries and idiosyncrasies of his own mind.