Conceiving Ada
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
Cast
Tilda Swinton
as Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace
Francesca Faridany
as Emmy Coer
Timothy Leary
as Sims
Karen Black
as Lady Byron / Mother Coer
John Perry Barlow
as John Crosse
John O'Keefe
as Charles Babbage
J.D. Wolfe
as Nicholas Clayton
Owen Murphy
as William Lovelace
David Brooks
as Children's Tutor
Esther Mulligan
as Mary Shelley
