Ben is an old man who has been in a coma for 40 years. Then he wakes up, which amazes the doctors. Dorothy is a young girl who has been in a coma for about two weeks. It seems Ben has a telepathic link to her. Dorothy's parents are suspicious at first, but Ben tells them details from her past that he wouldn't be able to know if he didn't communicate with her. Ben says that Dorothy is 'nowhere' and that, in the rift between life and death she is in, there are two people beckoning her to follow them 'somewhere' (that is to the afterlife). Dorothy is in an inner conflict because she has to decide where she will go, back to life or to the afterlife. Ben is encouraging her to come back to life...
I liked this story very much. I generally like stories that deal with the old questions 'Where do we come from?', 'Where do we go?', is there a soul and an afterlife? For example, I also liked 'Flatliners' and 'The Sixth Sense'. (I don't say that in this episode there are any new or extremely profound answers to these questions (it's just a nice little story that is only about 25 minutes long); what I want to say is that I liked the theme of the story.)
If you are convinced that there's no soul and no afterlife you will probably not like this episode because I think chances are it will be meaningless to you. I guess I should also mention that it's a quite sentimental story, so if you don't like 'tear-jerkers', you will probably not like this story. But if you're interested in stories that deal with (some of) the questions I have mentioned above and don't mind the sentimentality I think there's a good chance you will like it, too.
I liked this story very much. I generally like stories that deal with the old questions 'Where do we come from?', 'Where do we go?', is there a soul and an afterlife? For example, I also liked 'Flatliners' and 'The Sixth Sense'. (I don't say that in this episode there are any new or extremely profound answers to these questions (it's just a nice little story that is only about 25 minutes long); what I want to say is that I liked the theme of the story.)
If you are convinced that there's no soul and no afterlife you will probably not like this episode because I think chances are it will be meaningless to you. I guess I should also mention that it's a quite sentimental story, so if you don't like 'tear-jerkers', you will probably not like this story. But if you're interested in stories that deal with (some of) the questions I have mentioned above and don't mind the sentimentality I think there's a good chance you will like it, too.