Dreaming Grand Avenue

Though they've never crossed paths in the waking world, Maggie and Jimmy keep meeting up in dreams. Each recently devastated by loss and struggling to find the meaning of it all, the two dreamers are now inexplicably tied together by fate in ways they can’t yet comprehend. Set in Chicago, a city as magical as any dreamscape, and teeming with collective memories, tragedies, hopes and desires, the unresolved traumas Maggie and Jimmy face—both individual and shared—are no longer to be endured alone, either asleep or awake. A romantic and thought-provoking film that asks as many questions as it answers, DREAMING GRAND AVENUE shows how lived experience can become the very way through the confusion, pain and disconnection that haunts us. As Maggie and Jimmy navigate their grief—with the help of a dream detective, a sleep scientist and even the poet Walt Whitman himself—they discover the truth behind not only their linked subconsciousness, but that of their waking lives, too.