Eternal You

“Which of you deserves eternal life?”, asked Michel Houellebecq in his futuristic novel The Possibility of an Island. Perhaps we are living in the age when this question will cease to be merely philosophical. In this exceptional documentary, we see how the insights of the greatest science fiction are beginning to take shape, as people around the world use the most advanced AI technologies to connect with dead loved ones. Has technology managed to achieve what religion has promised for centuries: the immortality of the soul? Eternal You vividly captures the pulse of a potentially pivotal moment in human history, which confronts us with the dream of an eternity, if only a digital one. It also reflects on the psychological, moral, and existential consequences of this possibility of continuing beyond life. Are we really ready to consider a version of ourselves and our loved ones that does not end?