"Was that you, dancing in the kaleidoscope?"
In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love.
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Catharine Walsh
She
Dyfed Cynan
He
Jesse Sirkus-Brown
Audience 1
Thomas Banuelos
Audience 2
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