The lost oasis

the long version

A telephone call from a small B.C. town awakens Richard in Sevilla with the news that his father has disappeared. His passport has been discovered in the desert, and Richard feels compelled to look for him. This will not be the first time that his father - a charismatic yet detached presence - has occasioned a difficult journey. Greetings from the end of the world. Seven words on the back of a postcard. His father's last, from the Moroccan town where Richard begins his search. A search both backwards and forwards through time. A search that leads towards where a passport was discovered somewhere on the sand. Pulled gradually deeper into the charged atmosphere of this landscape, Richard is caught between his desire to return to his lover in Spain and the need to find out what happened to his father. What happened to them all.