On the morning of their final IVF attempt, a queer caribbean couple, are transported from a sterile waiting room into ancestral portals of love, lineage, and healing, confronting the weight of history and the resilience of their bond.
On the morning of their final IVF attempt, Camille and Rae, a Black Caribbean lesbian couple, arrive at a fertility clinic carrying years of hope, grief, and unwavering love. As they wait for the procedure that could change their lives forever, the sterile clinic dissolves into a series of ancestral portals that transport them across generations of Black motherhood, queer resilience, and inherited healing.
Guided by the mysterious presence of an elder named Miriam, Rae discovers her connection to a lineage of Black birth workers whose care has sustained families for generations, while Camille confronts the painful rupture between herself and the mother who rejected her after she came out. Together they journey through memories, reckonings, and visions of the future that challenge them to redefine what it means to inherit, forgive, and become family.
Blending surreal imagery with the emotional realities of IVF, THE WAIT is a meditation on faith, lineage, and the revolutionary act of imagining Black queer motherhood not through struggle alone, but through joy, possibility, and generations of love waiting to be born. This synopsis aligns with the film's central premise of IVF serving as the threshold into ancestral portals of love, lineage, and healing.
GLAAD Award winning filmmaker, Sekiya Dorsett, is dedicated to telling the stories of women of color. Her award winning documentary “The Revival: Women and the Word,” is distributed by Women Make Movies. In 2020, her 4-part documentary, Stonewall 50: The Revolution, in partnership with NBC News and NBCOut, won a GLAAD Media Award and the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalist for Excellence in Digital Journalism. She is one of the cinematographers for In Our Mother’s Gardens on Netflix. Dorsett's work has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, Urbanworld Film Festival, the Brooklyn Museum, Frameline Film Fest and Outfest Film Festival to name a few. Her work has been featured on Huff Post, Mic.com, BuzzFeed.com & Essence.com. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia. Sekiya’s work centers the Black experience.
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