Dr. Grace Dammann’s life changed forever when a driver passed out at the wheel on the Golden Gate Bridge, crashing head-on into her car. After a 48-day coma, brain bleeds and 9 surgeries, Grace miraculously regained consciousness with her cognitive abilities intact. But her body was left shattered and severely disabled.

'States of Grace' follows Grace as she struggles to reinvent herself and find meaning in her radically-altered life. Prior to the accident, Grace worked as a physician and co-founded the first HIV/AIDS clinic for poor people in San Francisco. She signed over 1,000 death certificates in the six-year period that marked the disease’s deadliest era. A practicing Buddhist, Grace was honored by the Dalai Lama for her extraordinary work with people in crisis.

Laura Karpman is a composer who brings feverish imagination, impeccable musicianship, complexity, versatility and unbridled joy to her music. Through a rigorous, fearless approach, coupled with conceptual and progressive uses of technology an