The Three Abstractions

Love, Time and Death, also known as The Three Abstractions, are the overaching protagonists of the 2016 fantasy drama film .
They are a benevolent trio of supernatural beings who pose as three seemingly ordinary theatre actors named Amy (Love), Raffi (Time), and Brigitte (Death).
== Background ==
When advertising executive Howard Inlet loses his six-year-old daughter to a rare form of cancer he becomes clinically depressed. As such, his firm loses many clients and is on the brink of bankruptcy. He also starts writing angry and hateful letters to the concepts of Death, Love and Time yelling about how they betrayed and hurt him by taking his daughter away. In an attempt to save the sale, his business partners and close friends (Whit, Claire and Simon) hire three theatre actors named Amy, Raffi, and Brigitte to play the concepts of Love, Time and Death respectively to respond to Howard's letters to the abstractions. They intend to record these interactions and digitally remove the actors to make Howard look like he's talking to nobody; they would use this as evidence of Howard being mentally unwell and finally sell the company. Howard's friends also do this plan to legitimately help Howard though.
The actors' first interactions with Howard utterly bewilder and annoy him, he almost doesn't believe that they are the abstractions. But during their second interactions with him, Howard fully believes that he is talking to the literal concepts of Love, Death and Time like in his letters and very angrily lashes out at them, blaming them killing his daughter and in effect ruining his life. While this happens, the actors converse with Howard's friends and the latter reveal that they are suffering from hardship as well. Whit is estranged from his daughter who now lives with his ex-wife; Claire worries she's too old to have a child; and Simon is slowly dying but hasn't revealed this news to any of his family yet. The actors give Howard's friends plenty of advice or insights about life and they slowly start to take it.
Howard is then called into a meeting that discusses footage of him yelling at the digitally removed actors, which confirms he is mentally unwell for the firm. Howard figures out his co-workers hired actors and devised this plan but he immediately forgives them and sells the firm, telling his friends that it's the right thing to do.
== Powers & Abilities ==
As their supernatural nature isn't revealed until the film's very end, their powers are only evident on a second viewing.
* Omnipresence: Being forces of the universe, they are in the presence of every human being on Earth and as such able to talk to them about situations where no one else was around.
* Visibility manipulation: They can control who can or cannot see them such as when they are conversing with Howard while everyone around Howard cannot see them. While this is initially chalked up to the private investigator digitally removing them, the effect is far too convincing to be editing. This is made clear in the ending where the three abstractions look down smiling at Howard and Madeleine from atop a bridge. At first Howard sees them but when he looks back, they are not there anymore.
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