Omni Loop

Did You Know?

• Harris Yulin's appearance in Omni Loop is his final film role before his death in June 2025.
• The screenplay was selected for the 2017 Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab.
• Principal photography took place in Miami in September 2022.
• The film received finishing funds from Amazon Studios (now Amazon MGM Studios) and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival in June 2023.
• Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three out of four stars, calling it 'a seductive and thought provoking ride with sensitive and surprising performances.'

Plot

Zoya Lowe, a quantum physics textbook author, is diagnosed with a black hole growing in her chest and has only one week left to live. To avoid death, she enters a time loop using a time travel pill that allows her to go back five days. She discovered these pills when she was 12 and used them to improve her life, but stopped for many years before her diagnosis. Frustrated with repeating the same sad loop with her husband, adult daughter, and son-in-law, she decides to resume her past research on the pills.

She meets Paula, a research assistant studying time at a local community college, and enlists her help, hoping to travel back years and potentially alter her past. Each cycle, Zoya sneaks out of the hospital and hides from her worried family. When the research continues unsuccessfully, she is upset but refuses to reach out to her past colleague and ex, Mark Harrison. In a last-ditch effort, she tracks him down and finds he died four months earlier.

His son, now living in his dad's house, invites her in and says he wishes his dad hadn't spent his last days working. After this, Zoya listens to the voicemails her family have been leaving every cycle and breaks down in tears, resetting her week one final time. This time she is happy to be in the loop, repeating things she's done with her family while still creating new memories. She stops by Paula's to give her a copy of all the research they had done together and the time travel pills, saying maybe Paula is the one to figure it all out.

As the loop is coming to a close, Zoya's family bring her a birthday cake, but unlike any loops in the past, Zoya opens her gift. She is shocked to find a photo of her daughter's sonogram: Zoya is going to be a grandmother. She smiles and tells her family how much she loves them before the black hole consumes her.