Afterlife is set in a transitional zone between this world and the next,
a kind of way station for souls in limbo. Everyone who passes through has
a week to choose one memory to take with them into eternity – everything
else will be forgotten. When they've selected their single most
important memory, a permanent record is created on film. It's a
brilliant concept, opening up into a complex, subtle and immensely
moving meditation on meaning in both life and cinema, and compelling us
to consider what it might be that matters most of all to us.
