Seated behind parents who have lost their son to AIDS, visitors take a magic realist journey down a country road in rural Missouri. By interacting with artifacts from the son’s life: personal belongings, photographs, and his diary, visitors get to know the man who has died.

The virtual reality experience is anchored in a physical, interactive, immersive installation in which we recreate a domestic space—Sebastian’s childhood home—populated with historically accurate, crowd-sourced, and curated objects. They encourage visitors to explore this space before or after experiencing virtual reality.