Teresa Longo

A young woman struggles to learn Spanish in order to reconnect with her immigrant grandfather, but when life gets in the way, she learns that love transcends language.

Let the World Go On Sleeping depicts a vision I once had - a dream in which we play voyeur, and watch our lives. The film is staged somewhere familiar but can not be easily placed. We become aware as we watch a chain of mothers and fathers in a home that we belong too. They wait eagerly to acknowledge you with peace and thank you for even existing at all. It is a story about loss and liberation. It's a rhythm, it's a beat, it's a song that we have long forgotten but still dance to