Dreams Awake

The Film Synopsis

The Emrys family, embattled and disconnected, has lost any communication in their daily shuffle, always on the fast track with no time for being a real family. A naturopathic practitioner who longs for more connection in her unfulfilled life, Hope struggles with unsettling, enigmatic dreams. Her husband Marcus, a driven yet fun-loving architect, is at his wits end with her. Both children appear neglected by their parents, as daughter Sophie deals with a crushing past incident, and her younger brother Troy covers up his insecurities with intellectual diatribes.

On a family vacation fate deals them a different hand when they are stranded near mysterious, mystical Mt. Shasta, in which circumstances require they stay for a while. After they rent a house on acreage near the base of the mountain, it doesn’t take long for the ‘mysterious magic’ of the mountain to begin its course. As the family now has all the modern distractions of their world removed, they are forced into more inner reflection, which opens them up to a new world of possibilities.