A woman in financial straits takes a job at a fly-by-night call center, where she finds that desperation alone won’t turn her into a successful salesperson. The script used in the call center was taken from a real-life job interview the director attended while looking for a summer job in college.
We all know better than to click on a pop-up ad promising us thousands of dollars. We all know better than to go into debt. We all know better than to take a job that promises easy cash. But we all make mistakes, and Melissa Howell (Katherine Cullen) has somehow found herself at the intersection of broke and desperate. While ignoring calls from a debt-collection agency, she takes a job at as a quasi-telemarketer, selling vacation packages to people who call in thinking they’ve won a cash prize. At job orientation, she meets her gratingly enthusiastic boss Frances (“you can call me Fran”), played by Erika Batdorf, and a happily spacey co-worker, played by Lesley Loksi Chan.
Somewhere in the shadows of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, a young woman spends her nights alone, lurking in internet chat rooms and meticulously constructing a 'vision board' of an ideal future, while her real life crumbles around her.
Somewhere in the shadows of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, a young woman spends her nights alone, lurking in internet chat rooms and meticulously constructing a 'vision board' of an ideal future, while her real life crumbles around her.
La tranquila vida de un vagabundo se vuelve patas arriba por una terrible noticia. Así se dirige a la casa de su infancia para planear un acto de venganza.
