The Proof

A mathematician's proof rewrites the memory of anyone who understands it. Her husband reads it first, and now remembers their son's death differently.

Combinatorics professor Ruth Adebayo-Kell finishes the proof of her life on the slate wall of her study, and before she can stop him her husband Daniel reads it through in one sitting. By morning his memories of their nineteen-year marriage are changing, one year at a time, and Ruth works out the exact minute the change will reach the afternoon their four-year-old son died. She has until 3:35 to decide whether to fight her own theorem or sit beside him when it arrives.

The film is complete in 50 minutes. If it funds, a four-part series opens as a stretch goal, with the film as episode one.