A drug that lets you relive your own memories more vividly than the moment itself sounds like a gift, until the scientist who built it discovers what it costs.
What is OtherLife about?
Ren Emery is a driven inventor whose breakthrough compound heightens the emotional intensity of memory, turning an ordinary recollection into something closer to a full sensory replay. What begins as a medical tool for pain management and emotional therapy edges toward something else entirely: a form of manufactured virtual reality built not from code but from a person's own past. As word spreads and interest grows, Ren has to reckon with how a technology meant to heal can just as easily be repurposed to control, exploit, or trap the people who use it. The film moves between the clinical promise of the invention and its darker private consequences, following characters who are drawn deeper into their own remembered lives than they intend to go. Questions of consent, addiction, and who gets to decide what a memory means sit underneath the science-fiction premise. "OtherLife" treats its central idea less as spectacle and more as a psychological puzzle, tightening the space between what is real, what is remembered, and what has been rewritten by the drug itself.
About the cast
Jessica De Gouw leads as Ren Emery, with T.J. Power, Thomas Cocquerel, and Hoa Xuande in supporting roles that anchor the story's mix of scientific ambition and personal fallout.
Context & significance
Directed by Ben C. Lucas, "OtherLife" is an Australian production that fits within a wave of mid-2010s science-fiction thrillers preoccupied with memory, perception, and the ethics of neurotechnology. Its 2017 release places it alongside other genre films asking what happens when the line between simulated and lived experience gets thin enough to cross without noticing.
Watching OtherLife on Ktime
"OtherLife" is available on K-Time with a free account login, and Persian-speaking viewers can browse the platform's science-fiction and thriller catalogue through its Farsi interface.