Life and death. Living and dying. Ancient civilizations had their own beliefs of the afterlife based on their experiences and speculation. But they all had one thing in common. That the time we spend here on earth, in this fragile human shell, is not the end of the journey. That death is not the end, but only a transition to another life experience.

That’s what the subject of this film, Abeyance, addresses. The question it poses to the audience transcends race, color, creed, and religion. Everyone, dating back to the earliest humans has probably asked the question, “what happens between life and death?”.

A question like that invites other, more philosophically deep questions, such as, If there is a place we occupy before moving on, would our decisions in the real world affect what happens to us in the afterlife? Could we redeem ourselves, or be forced to just accept our fate? Can we change our ultimate journey, or do we have to accept our fate because we didn’t think about it in the real world?

In Abeyance, the characters have to figure out why they have been forced together in this isolated space, with seemingly no way to escape. Along the way, they find out some things about themselves, that not is all as it seems, and that their way out is more horrifying than how they got there.