Grief takes a scientific turn in this Canadian drama, which folds quantum theory into a story about a love that refuses to end when a life apparently does.

What is Between Waves about?

Jamie is left reeling after the disappearance of Isaac, the physicist she loved, gone under circumstances the film never fully resolves for her. What follows is not a conventional mourning story: Isaac keeps appearing to her, insisting that another version of their life together exists on a parallel plane, and that she has a choice to make about joining him there. Director Virginia Abramovich uses that premise to explore how far someone will go to hold onto a relationship the rest of the world has already declared over, letting the emotional stakes matter more than the mechanics of the science behind them.

About the cast

Fiona Graham carries the film as Jamie, working opposite Luke Robinson's Isaac in a pairing built on longing rather than easy chemistry. Sebastian Deery, Stacey Bernstein, Jessica Barrera, Lora Burke and Edwige Jean-Pierre round out the ensemble, giving the central relationship a wider circle of friends and skeptics to react against as Jamie's choices grow harder to explain to the people still grounded in the world she is being pulled away from.

Context & significance

Between Waves arrived in 2020 as part of a run of small-scale Canadian genre features that use speculative ideas to dramatize ordinary heartbreak rather than spectacle. Its mix of romance and science fiction sits closer to a chamber piece than a blockbuster: the parallel-plane premise stays a backdrop for two people's unfinished conversation, not an excuse for effects-driven set pieces. That restraint is part of what sets it apart within the wider pairing of drama and speculative fiction, and it keeps the focus squarely on Jamie's internal struggle rather than on any elaborate world-building.

Watching Between Waves on Ktime

Between Waves streams on K-Time with a free account login, in English, with no Persian dub or subtitle track currently available. K-Time's Farsi-language interface still makes browsing, searching and queuing a title like this one straightforward for viewers who prefer navigating the wider catalogue in Persian even when a specific film plays only in its original language.