Love, loss and eternal life - the Bloom trailer has it all

As life returns to normal and those who survived remember the dead, Ray (played by Brown) has another burden to carry as his beloved wife Gwen (Weaver) succumbs to Alzheimer’s and begins to lose her memories and herself.

Then just as all hope seems lost, Ray notices the couple’s elderly dog has collapsed after eating something from a mysterious plant that had grown in their yard since the flood washed through.

“She won’t last long,” he says as he watches his collapsed pet struggle on its bed. But the next day a miracle has happened. Not only has the dog survived, she is a pup again, filled with life.
Looking at Gwen, Ray has an idea.

“I’ve got something for you,” he says one night after finding the plant that had brought new life to their dog. “Make you feel better.”

Gwen does indeed feel better, returned overnight to the beautiful young woman she once was (played this time by Tonkin), but is it the miracle Ray had hoped for?

It seems the young Gwen sees her second chance as an opportunity to avoid the mistakes she regretted as her old self and if that means finding love in the arms of someone who isn’t Ray, what will that mean for them?

Filled with intrigue, action and asking the very big questions, the Bloom trailer shows there’s still a lot of life left in what has been a story told many times before.

Since the 5th century BC, legends have told of The Fountain Of Youth, a mystical place where waters (or perhaps a vine) existed that could restore youth.

The Holy Grail, the cup from which Jesus supposedly drank at the Last Supper has also been said to grant eternal life to those who drank from it and everything from vampires to Peter Pan and Dorian Grey captured popular attention with the dream that maybe it could be true.

But as Bloom shows, that youth comes at a price.

His wife may be young again, but with another love from her past joining her in a second chance at youth, Ray looks just as certain of losing Gwen to life as he did to death.

And he’s not the only one who has discovered the secret held in the plant revealed by the flood … who is Sam (Corr), who arrives in town filled with energy, violence and a hidden mission?

Has he too discovered their way back from old age? And if so, is this a secret he is willing to share or one he would kill to protect?

And worse, as we see in one shocking when Ray and Gwen’s dog is no longer a pup again, what if the gift of youth isn’t permanent?

In less than two and a half minutes, the Bloom trailer introduces a world of possibilities and pushes the viewer to ask themselves the same question facing its stars – what would you do?

Finding out their answer looks set to be one of the new television year’s great moments.
Check out the Bloom trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqULVY0R44o&feature=youtu.be

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