Summaries

A suicidal businessman is visited by an inter-dimensional being who appears in the form of a beautiful woman.

Details

Keywords
  • life
  • time
  • death
  • parallel universe
  • celestial beings
Genres
  • Sci-Fi
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Nov 30, 2018
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Orange County, California, USA
Production companies Sacred Ember Films

Box office

Gross worldwide $190000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

Successful yet suicidal businessman Steven Karius (Sam Brittan) sits contemplating his life on a dark, December night moments before he plans to shoot himself. Just as he's about to pull the trigger, Death (Sharmita Bhattacharya), a beautiful woman in a blue gown suddenly appears in front of him. Shocked, he demands her identity. She explains how she's an inter-dimensional incarnation of Death sent to prevent him from killing himself. He describes how he's grown tired of living in an unfiltered capitalistic society and as a result has lost the will to live.

She convinces him that there is an abundance of good in the world and that it's always worth fighting for. After giving him a renewed sense of hope for both the world and humanity, she persuades him to find a rare brush plant on the eastern slopes of Nairobi and once he does that, the path to Enlightenment will reveal itself. She tells him she will check in on him twenty years later, then vanishes.

Twenty years pass and Steven sits meditating in his living room. He suddenly opens his eyes and Death appears in front of him yet again. Deeply pleased to see her, he recounts what has happened to him since their first encounter. After she left, a mysterious force compelled him to go to India, where he eventually came face to face with the Dalai Lama. Steven explains how he challenged him on his conceptual views of existence and his very notion of God. After six days of awe inspiring debate, he journeyed to Kenya to find the rare brush plant Death had told him to find. After finding it, a note appeared on his bedside table instructing him to go to a cafe at midnight in a crime infested part of town. He recounts how he went to the cafe and met a mysterious man who turned out to be an incarnation of God, who sent him on a mission to eliminate poverty with the help of a silver credit card containing an infinite amount of money.

Death, continually intrigued by Steven's story, listens carefully. With his new found wealth, Steven eradicated poverty by buying every homeless person in the world everything they ever wanted. He then confesses to Death that during his travels he realized he had fallen in love with her. Shocked, she tells him that he can't be in love with her since she isn't even a human being and that he can't possibly love an inter-dimensional being. He counters this argument by explaining how love isn't something one can quantify or truly understand. He then pleads with her to send him a clone of her, to which she replies that she will do her best to do so. She tells him she will visit him one last time in twenty years on his death bed. With that, she vanishes again.

Twenty years pass again and Steven now lies on his death bed. Riddled with cancer and with only twenty minutes left to live, Death approaches him and comforts him. She explains how after becoming a human with the help of a being in the seventeenth dimension, she realized she was always in love with him but since her program never allowed her to experience it, she never knew this hidden truth.

She tells him that she's now exchanged eternal life to be with him and that after they die, they'll wake up in a parallel universe together. Pure joy fills Steven. Holding hands, they die together.

A million years later, Steven and Death wake up in a parallel universe that resembles Planet Earth. Death spots Steven's house and despite it being in a parallel universe, appears exactly how it was on Earth. After asking to be called Zara, Death explains to Steven that Earth was always a paradise, but was ultimately what people made of it.

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