Between Modica's Baroque architecture and Shanghai's vertical sprawl, a Sicilian sound designer and a Brazilian engineer find in each other a connection that makes them face their true selves — and then spend a year searching for every reason not to close the distance.

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The microcosm of Viola — a sound designer searching for the "perfect frequency" within the temporal stasis of Baroque Sicily — is fractured by opposing interferences: just as her grandmother is about to leave her forever, the magnetic Cadu, a Brazilian engineer moving through the hyper-modern skyscrapers of Shanghai, virtually breaks into her life.

His idealized presence, like a digital ghost, becomes a constant reverberation in Viola’s life for nearly a year. During this time, she is forced to confront questions she had long tried to bury: the nature of desire through the lens of her asexuality, and the sustainability of a love — or the mere idea of it — that survives only in a limbo of bits and time zones.

Blue Ticks on Mute is a sensory exploration of the sense of self and the mystery of human incommunicability mediated by the digital bubble. Through a subtle progression of consequences dictated by non-choices, Viola and Cadu force each other to look into a mirror that refuses to hide the darkest sides of their egos, revealing that digital alienation is merely a vessel in which we drown our millennial loneliness.