We open on a well-known scene: people queuing up in the evening, in front of an Apple Store set to open its doors the next morning. Only, this is not a film set; this is real. It’s filmed the night of the real opening of the first Belgian Apple flagship store, and the people aren’t actors. They are waiting for what seems important to them.

Now two people enter the queue: Astrid and Luc, both of them real patients waiting for a organ. They confront the queuing people with their own waiting ordeal … for moths now, for an organ. This is, of course, confrontational.

But there’s a solution. Our patients propose to take over the job of waiting, if the people they replace register there and then as organ donors. A deal they all accept.

The film ends with an appeal to the audience to register as a donor.

Under Belgian law, every deceased person is by default considered to be an organ donor, unless he or she explicitly objected during life. In reality however, doctors still ask the family’s permission, leading to many refusals and thereby to long waiting periods for patients in need of organs such as lungs, kidneys, etc. Sometimes people die before they can receive a lifesaving organ.

The only one way to circumvent this is to explicitly state during life that you do want to become a donor. Reborn is an organization that constantly creates awareness around this topic and is permanently on the lookout for opportunities to stimulate people to sign up as a donor.