A Stranger in the World holds two fragile stories beside each other: the life of a composer, inspired by the patient formation of cave drip-stones, and a father’s attempt to understand his son, living with autism, whose sensory world moves to different rhythms.
Slow and urgent; a geological century long slow rhythm, and urgent in the need for closeness. The oscillation between distance and intimacy, the unspoken longing to understand what can’t always be communicated, and the beauty in observing rather than explaining. Without overt narration, the film works in fragments of memory, sound, and sensory detail: footsteps, echoes, light through stone, moments of child-like wonder. A Stranger in the World is an invitation to dwell in the space between worlds—between a son’s silence, a composer’s patience, and a father’s hope that love might—somehow—bridge the gap.