Synopsis:
"Substance" is a spiritual drama about a young woman diagnosed with a rare form of schizophrenia. Daphne may simply avert the disease that would eventually make her go insane by taking a drug, but that same drug will abort the unborn child with her. If the disease is hereditary she will abort the fetus and save herself, if not, she will have the child, but lapse into total insanity.

Daphne must find the father she has never known and have him take a blood test. Unfortunately, he denies her and she decides to deduce his sanity or insanity through his abandoned research in dolphin linguistics, but for her, time is running out as she searches for a father (both for the baby and for herself), for a disease, and for the self she has so inescapably lost.

"Morgan's film is an expertly acted and filmed, intelligently conceived, philosophically provocative, and deeply affecting spiritual speculative fiction—don't miss it." - San Francisco IndieFest

"…when I write that I love a movie, I genuinely love it. And, in fact, I did love "The Substance of Things Hoped For". - Jason Watches Movies

"We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For." - SFist

Cast:
Vanessa Lengies, Ray Wise, Richard Tanner, Shannon Cochran, Lorena York

Crew:
Directed & Edited by Greg Morgan
Producers: Greg & Jeanne Morgan
Screenplay: Duke Addleman & Greg Morgan
Co-Producer: Duke Addleman
Director of Photography: Jessica Gallant
Production Designer: Caitlin Wilbert
Original Music: Sam Estes Casting: Gino Havens

© 2006, 87 minutes, Super 16mm