Above Us All

Original Title|Above Us All

2014 (Draft)

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Shay is an eleven-year-old girl growing up with an Indigenous Australian mother and a father who is a Flemish astronomer. He is researcher at an Australian Astronomical Observatory. After his wife's death, he decides to return to Ypres, Belgium for a time-out, taking his two children with him.

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Shay is an eleven-year-old girl growing up with an Indigenous Australian mother and a father who is a Flemish astronomer. He is researcher at an Australian Astronomical Observatory. After his wife's death, he decides to return to Ypres, Belgium for a time-out, taking his two children with him.Above Us All tells the story of an amputated family that becomes uprooted after moving to a new world. This world seems to be held captive by it's own past. Hundred years after the outbreak of the war, Ypres still struggles with the question which story of that collective traumatic event is the most relevant.