About Lily: Lily has ALS. She moves on crutches. She is nine years old and has been told by multiple doctors that there is nothing more they can do. She is not defined by her illness. Lily is curious. Quietly brave. She watches Andrew from across a room and gives him a small wave. She sends him a card covered in glitter and hearts before a surgery she might not survive. She writes thank you and signs it with love. That is Lily. The role requires: A child who is genuinely present on camera without performing. Natural stillness and quiet courage. A small wave across a room would feel like the most important gesture in the film. Note to guardians: Lily's scenes do not involve dramatic or emotionally challenging material for the child actor. This is a gentle and carefully managed role. The child will be fully supported at all times. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Mr. Aldridge: Mr. Aldridge is Lily's father. He is a man doing the hardest thing a parent can do. Making an impossible decision about his child's life while holding his family together. Lily is not afraid, he is. He knows it. He tries to hide it. The role requires: Genuine parental presence. Love and terror simultaneously without either overwhelming the other. Physical stillness in crisis. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Mrs. Aldridge: Mrs. Aldridge is Lily's mother. She is the emotional center of the Aldridge family. She carries the fear that Mr. Aldridge tries to steady. She loves her daughter with a ferocity that has no outlet in the situation she is in. She is one piece of bad news away from falling apart. The role requires: She communicates a mother's terror and love through pure physical presence. Everything lives in the body. She cannot face this head on. She can't decide. She just looks away. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Jamie: Jamie owns every room she walks into before she's said a word. She is beauty in mathematical precision. She's not loud. She is aware she attracts a gaze. People notice her before they understand why. She watches a crowd from a balcony and decides, calmly, who's interesting. She claps slowly, once, and it lands like an invitation and a verdict at the same time. Jamie knows exactly what she is. She has made complete peace with it. The role requires: She isn't cold or calculating, she's simply operating with more certainty than everyone around her. The ability to make someone feel completely seen in a single glance, without a single line of dialogue in some scenes. A quality of presence that the audience will sense is slightly outside the ordinary. Production notes: Jamie's scenes involve a specific technical approach that will be discussed in detail with shortlisted candidates. Some sequences will be filmed and composited in coordination with the actor playing Ricky, requiring close collaboration to keep the emotional dynamic between them completely genuine. Note to actor: There is more to Jamie than this breakdown reveals. What she actually is will be shared privately once cast. What you need to know now: Play her exactly as written, with total confidence and total warmth. The mystery isn't something to perform. It's something the film reveals around her. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Boyd: Boyd is on the medical board. He is not an obstacle. He is a man with genuine responsibility trying to exercise it in the presence of people whose passion he respects and whose methods he cannot sanction. Boyd is the film's institutional conscience. He knows the rules exist for good reasons. He also knows that good reasons have limits. This is a colleague trying to protect people he cares about from consequences he can already see coming. The role requires: A sense of credible academic and medical authority. Warmth underneath professional reserve. The ability to say no and mean it and then find the narrow path to a complicated yes. Chemistry with the actors playing David and Emily. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Edgar: Edgar sweeps an already clean spot outside a cafe. That is his first image in the film. That is almost everything about Edgar. He is one of the original six that were part of a controlled experiment. He was promised a future and given something else entirely. He survived what the others didn't and built himself a quiet life. The role requires: The quality of a man who has been through something enormous and come out the other side quietly. Natural wariness that gives way to genuine humanity. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Sylvia: Sylvia is an assistant. She is precise. Impeccably presented. She moves through rooms with complete economy of motion. She is not human in the conventional sense. She waits until a door has closed just enough before moving on, or until a candle flame has settled just right before accepting. She is also the only character who has witnessed everything from the beginning. She carries that weight without showing it. Until the moment she chooses to. The role requires: Exceptional stillness paired with deliberate, economical movement. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

About Carol: Carol is David's friend. Perhaps something more. She knew the family. She adores Andrew. She arrives at a house still in grief and navigates it with the particular grace of someone who cares deeply and knows when and what not to say. The role requires: Warmth that is completely earned and completely natural. She absorbs difficult situations and responds with practical kindness rather than dramatic reaction. Chemistry with the actor playing David. A quality that makes the audience immediately understand why David called her. Submission Requirements: • Current headshot • Resume or acting CV • Demo reel (if available)

Ana is a Portuguese woman in her 70-80s, who immigrated to Toronto from Madeira, Portugal in the 1960s. She is spiritual and superstitious, and a good practicing catholic. When she wakes up believing she has risen from the dead, she is focused and determined to understand the meaning behind this by giving a final Easter dinner.

Afonso is ex-Ana's husband, though he remains her only acquaintance since her sister’s death. Having lived a life of hard, manual labour, he is practical, logical, and as a result, brutish. Wanting deeply to keep his Portuguese traditions alive, his practicalness typically prevents him from doing so. Sceptical of Ana’s supernatural theories, he does not entertain her proposition that she has been brought back from the dead, wishing only for a predictable dinner.

Gabriel is Ana and Afonso's 30-year-old son. A Canadian child, he doesn’t particularly care for his Portuguese heritage, and is impartial to keeping its traditions alive, never growing roots in his culture. He is oblivious to the emotional states of his parents, causing him to seek infantile comforts during dinner.

The Priest of Ana’s church. Reasoning but polite, always choosing his words wisely, religious faith is more science than mysticism. When Ana confesses that she believes she's risen from the dead, he meets her with kindness, but finding it difficult to believe, suggests reason and sense.

The face of Paradise Property, he is robotic, corporate, and artificially friendly. He is all smiles and positivity, despite giving the news that your house is being taken away. When confronted with emotions from Ana (the tenant of whom he is taking the apartment away), he is clumsy in reaction, locked up by his lack of humanity.

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In the aftermath of an unimaginable loss, Marty is emotionally fraying at the edges. Despite her best efforts, her grief seeps into every part of her life and manifests itself as impulsivity, dark humor, vulnerability, and a deep longing for human connection. Seeking an actor with exceptional dramatic range and a strong instinct for comedic timing.

Nora is no stranger to loss, even with her youthful spirit. She is warm, impulsive, and deeply eager to be needed, often acting before she thinks. In caring for her loved ones, she is rediscovering her old life, a new purpose, and companionship that is as cathartic as it is codependent. Nora's generosity is genuine, but it's also her way of avoiding herself. Seeking a strong actor with emotional range.

Jackson is young, carefree, and naturally charismatic. He is a drug dealer living in his parents basement. But there is something sincere and disarming about him. Jackson is vulgar, witty, and fast-talking.

Michael appears briefly and is heard through his voice. Michael’s carries warmth, and quiet youthful charisma. Seeking an actor capable of a natural and emotionally grounded delivery that brings comfort to those around him.