Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended

In the final episode, featuring a cameo from Van Sant, Silvia wanders the phantasmagoric streets of Rome at night, and is drawn into a dreamlike moment involving a dress. As she reads a poem through an intercom in a street doorway, a gentleman inside the apartment, played by singer and actor Lu Han, listens while he irons and shortens a dress with a pair of scissors. After a spontaneous ride on a scooter through the nighttime streets of Rome, Silvia returns to where she began, and a walk into the night reveals the underlying nature of her reality.

On the streets of Rome, Silvia discovers a vintage shop with a neon Gucci sign in the window. As she and a diverse cast of customers begin to try on clothes from the racks, an enigmatic woman walks into the store, played by singer and songwriter Florence Welch. The visitor writes out fragments of a poem on pieces of paper, and tucks them away inside the garments.

We return to the apartment where the day began, but this time meet characters in the homes surrounding, gaining a voyeuristic view into their lives, fantasies and unguarded private moments – including a painter intently cleaning her fake eyelashes, played by artist Ariana Papademetropoulos. Someone in a bathtub watches television, as a music video starring Billie Eilish fills our screens, playing in its entirety. These vignettes captured through the frames of the windows ultimately combine into a reversal of perspective, as Silvia once more takes centre stage.

Our world becomes a stage in the fourth episode as Silvia arrives for an audition in a theatre together with her friend and fellow performer, played by actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who offers encouragement. As the dancers warm up and get into costume backstage, Silvia and the choreographer, played by famed German dance leader Sasha Waltz, perform together to Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. A group bonding exercise on the stage with Waltz’s troupe becomes increasingly intense.