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.
When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
