Spectrauma: Ph.D. candidates Brett, Kimberly and Caleb make a major breakthrough in quantum computer architecture. While testing their new computer design in the
university lab, they experience ghastly visions and sensations. Brett finds refuge and contemplation outside the laboratory in the campus conservatory, playing the piano. Here
he also meets up with girlfriend Isabelle, a haunted, brooding music prodigy. The piano is the film’s central metaphor; an instrument of empathy, which - the young
researchers quickly realize - is also true of their new computing device. Its lurid effects place Brett and Caleb under an intoxicating spell.
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