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Nana Lou is an interactive animated film for virtual reality about end of life, targeted at a family audience - duration 30 to 40 minutes.

Synopsis: Immersed in the world of the spirits of the ancestresses, you are appointed, along with two other guides, to accompany Nana Lou on her last journey. On the day her granddaughter Clementine gives birth in a maternity hospital in Tokyo, Nana Lou has a stroke at home in France. She finds herself in the hospital, stranded between life and death. By your luminous presence at her side, you help her revisit her memories and pass away in peace.

User experience: Nana Lou is a VR interactive animated tale inviting the viewer to play a spirit accompanying a grandmother during her last moments. Through your luminous presence at her side, you will comfort the main character as she faces medical ordeals and help her revisit her memories to make her last journey a wonderful story. The viewer navigates through distinctly different environments. The Tree of Life, a gigantic plant on an immeasurable scale, represents a fantastical world, an ecosystem of luminescent plants fed by a luminescent sap and home to sparkling spirits. In contrast, Nana Lou's clinical room is cold and realistic, its simplicity offering calm to accommodate the viewer's warmth. Lastly, Nana Lou's personal spaces are depicted as being invaded by plants, hybrid vegetation, and ordinary objects that occasionally start to float and come to life.

The project invites dialogue on a subject that remains taboo and discusses end-of-life care, therapeutic relentlessness, DNR directives, the stages of grief, the loss of a loved one, and transmission.