Rana, this is fabulous! the final cut is amazing, I really love the images you chose, and the story is so moving. I love the characters, and the life it brings to the story just with a few camera movements over still drawings. And, of course, my love for the New Pornographers knows no bounds, but this has extended them a bit. It really is the perfect song for the story.
and I must repeat, I found the return to the bottle from the first frame entirely moving - that now the viewer knows that Ali has been worried this entire time - how many of those has she thrown to the uncaring sea, I wonder, before Jimmy arrives and brings with him the way to the cure?