Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia suggests he rekindle his creativity by getting lost in the city, Steven sets out in search of inspiration. His epiphany comes after he meets a spirited woman named Katrina and discovers his life has much more potential than he bargained for, or ever could have imagined.
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Milo (Eric Ruffin) é mais um adolescente comum, que vive no bairro do Queens, em Nova Iorque, com o seu irmão. Ele tem os mesmos problemas que a maioria dos adolescentes de sua idade que sofrem bullying, encontrando refúgio em seu pequeno apartamento. A diferença, no entanto, entre Milo e os outros adolescentes é que o rapaz esconde um grande segredo. Exatamente como a cidade onde mora: afinal, um dos segredos de Nova Iorque é que uma parcela de seus habitantes são vampiros.
“A Paracosm" centers around an apathetic ex-college athlete that runs an AirBnB upstate alongside an imaginary, terminally ill mother figure. In a coming of age story that is equal parts dark comedy & magical realism, an eclectic range of BnB guests & visitors inspire him to confront his aimlessness.