It explores the consequences of marrying for love and not for money.

While writing down ideas for the story, they decided to explore the consequences of having a pony in a suburban house.

The film explores the consequences when an actor and actress allow their true feelings to overtake their acting during an audition.

They then explore the consequences of these ideas and work toward making testable predictions.

Hinterlands explores the consequences for cultures and civilisations when confronted with artifacts - from an unknown but likely superior source - that are dangerous but nonetheless valuable.