The Gatherer (2020)

1988. A Friday night in the city's docklands. A meteorite plunges into the river, releasing a parasitic organism into the polluted water. The entity, a desperate survivor from the void, finds its host in Luis, a disheveled man living on the streets. Once a quantum physics professor, he retreated here after his family's death, earning the local nickname Professor Apocalypse. His fractured mind and abandoned intellect provide the perfect vessel. The alien consciousness merges with his grief, granting it form and a terrifying new agency within the urban sprawl. The wet concrete of the waterfront bears silent witness.