We Are Gathered Here Today (2025)

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The story of a dying family patriarch who is admitted to the hospital with Covid19. His only family contact is via a video conference call. During the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, Henry Stone, the patriarch of a large inter-racial family gets admitted to hospital dying with the virus. His wife, being the first to find out, calls her son, who alerts the entire family in a chain of calls in an attempt to gather everyone on a video conference call. This being the only contact the family is permitted to have with Henry — via an iPad provided by the nursing staff. The frustrated and concerned family gather and connect on the video conference call, instead of around the hospital bed. Through disconnection and confusion on the call, family love is shared, and deep conflicts arise, leading to old secrets being revealed and death at a distance being experienced.

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