SYNOPSIS

In a quiet park Evelyn sits alone—contemplative, still and tethered to a decision she made decades ago. When a younger version of herself appears, reality bends. Without a word, the two Evelyns—one in her late fifties, the other barely 25—begin a haunting, intuitive duet. They move as one soul split in time, orbiting the emotional core of a moment that changed everything: the day Evelyn gave up her child for adoption.

As they dance, we are drawn into Evelyn’s home where memory and emotion take over. She then gets pulled into a life-sized spinning zoetrope––a pre-film animation device that produces the illusion of motion––its flickering images replaying the pivotal decision in endless loops.

This is no simple reunion. It’s a reckoning.

In the film’s climax the two Evelyns clash in a dance of resistance and recognition. It is not a battle for dominance but an urgent search for release—for forgiveness. Through this final embrace Evelyn seeks to set herself free from the isolation and shame she has carried for a lifetime.

"REPERCUSSIONS" is a deeply personal cinematic meditation on adoption, memory and generational healing. Created by an adoptee, the film is both an artistic reckoning and a compassionate act of forgiveness.  I see you, I know you and I want to set us both free.

characters

Evelyn (present) 

A woman lives a seemingly happy life but the memory of the child she gave up for adoption 40 years ago still haunts her.
We assume the first-person perspective of her now-adult child—an adoptee—watching their birth mother from afar. As a young family strolls past her, complete with a baby carriage, we slip into her interior world. From here her reality fractures, revealing the abstract emotional terrain she navigates in private.
In this semi-realistic world, present-day Evelyn moves through her everyday surroundings but her internal world unfolds through abstract and contemporary dance. These expressive movements break the boundaries of realism, offering a window into her grief, longing and reconciliation with the life she never lived.

Evelyn (past) 











In this pivotal moment Evelyn has resolved that whatever decision she makes, she must fully commit to it.                                                                                                                                                                                She comes to realize that it’s okay not to have everything figured out—and that when we allow the past to define us, we only deepen our wounds. Her world is abstract, shaped by a surreal landscape of sculptural forms. She finds herself stuck in a life size zoetrope, repeating the same images and memories over and over.                                                                                                                                                      Evelyn’s movements through this space are sharp and conflicted, embodying her inner turmoil. But as the dance progresses the chaos gives way to stillness and control, suggesting a moment of reckoning. Where does she go from here? Has she finally come to terms with the emotional weight of her decision—and accepted what it truly means to live with it?

tyona kinu bowman

Georgina elizabeth okon