Short Film Plot Overview

Plot Overview/Synopsis

• We see a close up of the main male characters face. He is smiling.
• The same character is suddenly walking up a set of stairs. He seems to be in a hurry and looks unhappy.
• He walks into a ‘Meeting Room’ and sits down at a table with several other people. All people are wearing suits including our character.
• A discussion takes place between the people in suits but as the discussion goes on the sound of the convocation starts to become blurred.
• The man sees flashes of images of different forms of media as well as other symbolic images.
• His vision goes and all we can see is darkness.
• Suddenly, the main male character wakes up in the middle of a clearing in a Forrest. He is laying flat on his back and looking up at the sky.
• The man gets to his feet surveying his surroundings but has no idea where he is.
• He notices a line made out of sticks in the middle of the clearing.
• He slowly approaches it but as he gets closer seems hesitant.
• He stands at the edge of the line considering whether or not to cross it when he wakes up and is back in the meeting. The rest of the people in the meeting are staring in silence at our main character.
• He says sorry and the meeting continues.
• The meeting continues and images again start to appear in the characters head. Before he knows it he is back in the Forrest.
• He approaches the line again this time crossing it.
• As he crosses the weather turns from an overcast/cloudy atmosphere to a sunny day.
• As the sun beats down on him the man stands in shock on the other side of the line.
• He shouts out, throws his arms in the air and looks up at the sky.
• Suddenly, he is back on the meeting room.
• The main male character knocks over a chair to the shock of his co-workers who ,again, are staring at him.
• The man exits the meeting room. He runs down a corridor.
• The man trips of the stairs and falls down.
• He hits his head on the floor and slowly rolls over onto his back. As a puddle of blood forms around his head he smiles and a zoom is used to focus on his smiling face.
• Credits.