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Pyongyang, winter 1989. Kim Jong Il, watching the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu on satellite television, is shaken by the live collapse of a fellow autocrat. This silent shock became a turning point that reshaped strategies, borders, and ideologies. This experimental film uses AI not just as a tool, but as a lens that reconstructs lost perspectives, imagines hidden moments, and challenges the boundaries between fact and fiction. By revealing what history didn’t record, it explores how technology can resurrect ghosts of the past and anticipate the echoes of authoritarianism in the present.