Vorab-Rezensenten

Sprinkled with humor and a touch of magic realism, THREADS tells the story of a woman who has an extraordinary gift, a woman who needs one, and the man in the middle. Their innocent decisions have knock-on effects that are felt at opposite ends of the globe.

Irene lives with her pragmatic husband Chuck in their North American bubble of middle-class affluence until the bubble is burst by the painful loss of a child. Irene is inconsolable until she rediscovers wool. Then she becomes obsessed. She knits and hoards hundreds of exquisite little sweaters. This triggers a series of bizarre local events, the ripples of which reach the faraway shores of northern Chile, where one of the sweaters is repurposed.

Irene's story is tied to that of Gavin, a young man, who after searching for his own identity, discovers an innate talent for retail fashion. He sees potential at both ends of the fast fashion food chain and establishes a used clothing charity. When his charity receives a donation of hundreds of beautiful little sweaters (Irene's, of course), one of them is inadvertently dropped into a shipment bound for Chile. Here, the little sweater is stolen by Columba, a poverty-stricken single mother who has also lost a child. Enchanted by the little sweater, she converts it into an important icon.

It weaves the stories of two women in distinct cultures who are linked in their search for solace, with that of a young man who rolls along in blissful ignorance. The story dips us into a lush, little Canadian town before shipping us off in a container of discarded clothes and landing us at the driest desert on earth to witness their smoldering demise. The underlying theme of hyper-consumerism and its consequential environmental damage exposes this global reality and its local impacts.