Towering to a height of 5 meters, this video and sound installation depicts five stages of awakening through a series of violent transformations. It begins with a man looming forth from the darkness, drenched in black fluid. Gradually the fluid begins to rise; at first it is almost invisible, but after a while its motion escalates and it becomes a roaring deluge. The fluid changes several times; from brown to red to white, and ultimately becoming transparent as water. The film correspondingly changes in mood, from despair and fear followed by the purification of cleansing water. Finally, a soft mist brings acceptance, awakening, and birth. The fluids represent the essence of human life: earth, blood, milk, water, and air, and the life cycle from birth to death, here dramatically inverted into a transformation from darkness to light.