Conflict
What happens when the feelings we keep beneath the surface finally enter the room?
GettingOff theWheel
What if the life you are living is a life you never chose?
Ten individuals from Asia. Ten days in Japan. The stories they inherited—and the possibility of stepping beyond them.
An intimate, vérité-driven feature film documentary capturing real encounters during an Innerwork Circle retreat in the sacred landscapes of Kumamoto, Koyasan, and Awaji Island, Japan.
If we knew how to die well, would we finally know how to live – a worthwhile life?
A three-generation family confronts histories long held in silence. A career military regular begins questioning a future chosen for him. A respected ICF Master Certified Coach wrestles with belonging, sexuality, and religious shame. Others face betrayal, dementia, bereavement, and the uncertainty of a life-threatening diagnosis.
As their stories unfold, private struggles become shared encounters. They challenge their beliefs, histories, and assumptions, recognise themselves in one another, and begin questioning the roles they have spent their lives inhabiting.
Captured without scripts or reenactments, Getting Off The Wheel asks what it takes to let go of an inherited life—and what might become possible when we truly do.
The retreat is hosted and facilitated by Hun Ming Kwang, an award-winning Master Coach and author whose work explores transpersonal psychology, conflict, power, human behaviour, and personal transformation, alongside guest teachers Dr. Gary Reiss and Aikido masters Ikeda Hiroshi and Munetsugu Sakabe.
Step inside as ten individuals confront the hidden patterns they have come to call fate—and explore the courage to live in their own right.
Quiet. Raw. Human.
Key Themes
Six themes. One shared human journey.
Explore the film through six promotional teasers.
Power
Who taught us where we belong—and what happens when we question our place?
Nature
Beyond the demands and identities of daily life, what can we begin to hear?
Money
What does money mean to each of us: safety, freedom, love, status—or never having enough?
Dreams
What might the parts of ourselves we overlook be telling us about the inner work we need to do and the paths to take?
Rebirth
When an old way of living begins to fall away, how do we meet what comes next?
Four questions every human
being carries—but rarely
asks aloud
Who Am I?
Beneath the titles, the roles, and the masks I built to survive?
Where Do I Come From?
What have I inherited from my family, culture, and history—and which stories were never mine to carry?
What Do I Do?
With the grief, rage, numbness, loss, and hopelessness—and the lives within me I have yet to live?
Where Do I Go Next?
If I let go of who I was supposed to be, what becomes possible—and what is calling me forward?
A Film on Awakening, Trauma, Identity, and Human Transformation
The world is in a quiet crisis of identity.
Burnout. Disconnection. Inherited trauma. Meaning collapse.
People are looking for permission to be human.
Getting Off The Wheel asks how we might step out of the cycle—the same old stories, repetitions, and compulsions that keep us running in circles, generation after generation.
It speaks to anyone who has felt trapped inside roles and identities they never got to choose.
Beneath those expectations, what desires have remained unspoken? What lives have gone unlived? What deeper calling has been waiting to be heard?
What would it be like to finally step off—to get off the wheel?
★★★★★
“Breathtaking”
Closing Statement
Every breakthrough begins with death.
An inherited identity. A belief we never questioned. A way of surviving that no longer allows us to live.
What might become possible when we finally let go?
What does it mean to be fully human—to live with wholeness, remain true to our deepest essence, and move freely with life?
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Getting Off The Wheel
to Your Audience
Lives connected across Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Questions that reach across generations and cultures.
Through intimate stories of family, identity, grief, and belonging, Getting Off The Wheel invites audiences to recognise their own lives—and opens conversations that continue beyond the screen.
The film explores intergenerational trauma, systems, healing histories, LGBTQ+, identity and belonging, conflict, rank and power, spiritual awakening, and the relationship between dying and living. These themes offer a starting point for meaningful discussions about personal transformation and what it means to be free.
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