Blooming blues

Chromesthesia: the sound-to-color association, where individuals hear sounds and involuntarily experience corresponding colors, shapes, and movement.

Theo, drifts through life with nothing going for him but a dead-end job and working on a pointless degree. He numbs himself through his love for punk and the colours that surround it.


On the night that his housemate Sid pleads with him to take a shift at a Jazz bar, Theo’s life changes. He’s captivated by a promising saxophonist, Ruby. Her colours spark something in him that he’s never seen before. Their first encounter is anything but smooth as Theo clumsily breaks a meaningful keepsake given to her by her late uncle.

In Theo’s attempt at apologising, it then follows up with drinks, late nights at a playground, deep conversations and quiet moments . Ruby shares her ambitions to tour; this unfortunately echoes Theo’s fear of being left behind again.