SHORT · CHARACTER DRAMA / TWO-HANDER
A depressed Atlanta rideshare driver accepts a lucrative late-night fare into rural Georgia. When the signal dies and he realizes his passenger intends to die at the destination, keeping the stranger alive means admitting that he needs help too.
A two-hander inside one ordinary sedan. An awkward transaction becomes a standoff neither man can win by pretending he is fine; by the end, both have to do something harder than give advice: accept it.
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Two men, one car, a rural Georgia night. The plan includes controlled moving-car methods and mental-health / lived-experience review. The practical work is finding a safe way to make a contained night shoot.
Two men in a car, both trying not to say why the destination matters.
Two people keeping each other connected to life while grief turns every practical problem into a referendum.
When her husband’s estranged father dies, a Korean-American psychologist tries to keep her depression-prone spouse connected to life as funeral debt, a faith-based inheritance ultimatum, and their elderly dog’s medical crisis turn one loss into a test of how much grief a marriage can carry.
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After his brother’s funeral, a young man’s drunken choices set off a chain of events that ends in a woman’s death — and her haunting has no interest in forgiving him. His punishment is not death or escape. He has to survive the consequences.
OPEN ITAnother interrupted suicide plan, played with a different tonal instrument and the same emotional honesty.
A suicidal man’s carefully planned final night is ruined when his ex-wife drops off a tiny dog — and the little bastard refuses to let him die.
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