Ethernal

Thanks to a revolutionary scientific breakthrough, the dead can now communicate with the living via a terminal: the ETHERNA. Police officer David Novack, haunted by the death of his wife, works in a new squad tasked with finding the transitional objects needed to establish communication and taking post-mortem statements from victims. A routine investigation will shatter his beliefs, but also potentially lead him to closure.

Our take

In this French-speaking Belgian production, Ethernal presents a dreamlike and striking concept: a world where an object allows us to communicate with the dead. It is a gentle, deeply human reflection on our society and our relationship with grief in the age of conversational AI. By following the impossible mourning of an investigator unable to find his own wife’s “transitional object”, the series sweeps us into a profound emotional journey and a gripping investigation.