YOU WERE PERFECT
The price of the memory was the memory of the loss
Synopsis
Francis F, a gentle, lonely caseworker in the Afterlife, is preparing to leave his post after years of service. For so long he has been a curious voyeur on the lives of the living, watching memories play out in abstract, confusing, delightful ways.
Now, as he readies to close his last case, he is excited to finally make memories of his own, however, things get complicated when his final case turns out to be a ghost from a past that Francis couldn’t have imagined he had.
Director’s statement
This project was born from a place of deep personal grief and reflection. A few years ago, I lost my mother to cancer, and like many who experience such a profound loss, I found myself preoccupied with questions about what happens after we die. At the same time, I was also going through the end of a significant romantic relationship. The convergence of these two emotional upheavals – mourning a death and mourning a love – led me to explore the spaces where memory, loss, and connection intersect.
I wanted to tell a story about love that endures beyond physical boundaries – a story where the afterlife is not just an abstract concept, but a place of work, of waiting, and of watching. The idea that, in the final moments of life, everything flashes before your eyes sparked the concept of afterlife “workers” who witness these last, vivid memories.
Through this lens, the film became both a meditation on grief and a love story. While it acknowledges heartbreak and separation, it is ultimately an ode to how precious love is – even in its impermanence. The story aims to comfort and to remind us that the people we love, and the moments we share with them, never truly vanish.
Jody Whittle-Wyeth – Writer & Director
