Storming: Seasons of Care
Exploring the depths of love, hopelessness isn’t an option for one family in Storming: Seasons of Care, who provide 24-hour care for their son nearing 10 years in a coma after a traumatic brain injury.
Length
90 minutes
Funding Type
After a debate amongst strangers escalates in 2009, twenty-year-old Ryan Diviney is found in a parking lot with a traumatic brain injury leading to a coma.
Storming: Seasons of Care joins Ryan’s parents nine years after the diagnosis in their home in Ashburn, Virginia. Ryan is still in a coma and their basement now resembles an ICU. His father and full-time care partner, Ken, provides life-sustaining care for him after years of researching and designing an innovative treatment program, while his mother, Sue, works tirelessly to provide income and healthcare coverage for the family. In the hours following their son’s injury, doctors asked an urgent and impossible question: if they wanted to pull the respirator. Almost a decade later, they wonder if they are still doing everything they can for their child. With conflicting emotions about whether Ryan has the ability to return to consciousness, the couple navigates hope and grief, relying on each other to lead the way. Storming: Seasons of Care examines what it means to love deeply in the face of the unknown.