A filmmaker chases the essence of cinema, pushing beyond the limits of creation. But the closer he gets to his truth, the more reality blurs.

A neighborhood boy might have the solution to his problems, though. For two silver candlesticks, he promises to give Conrad a rare, vicious, growling and cunning animal with supernatural abilities, which supposedly was coveted in the past by Egyptian pharaohs, Borneo pirates and even Napoleon Bonaparte himself. Eventually the trade is made, Conrad gets the creature.

Five friends decide to rob a bank.

During a night drive, John stops at a rest stop near a highway. When he enters the building, he hears a man assaulting a woman in the ladies room. John struggles with the idea of intervening as the altercation escalates.

Victoria is a woman betrayed, now on a mission for revenge and destroying anything that gets in her way.

A couple unexpectedly finds a briefcase with enough money inside to change their lives forever. With no one around to lay claims to their prize, they take it as their own. However, it seems someone else was looking for the briefcase and now they must avoid them at all costs or they fear the worst could happen.

A damsel in distress agrees to run away with her wealthy lover in order to escape from her abusive husband. But all is not as it seems in this 1940s film noir.

A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

Briggs Sheridan can't chase his gambling-dragon fast enough, and when it looks to cost him more than a few broken limbs, he unwittingly puts more skin in the game than intended.

An ex-criminal is hired by the police to go undercover inside a drug cartel, but when he saves a little girl, he blows his cover.

Deadly events unfold around a man racing to his final and most significant act.

The short film (conveyed in a parable-like story structure) follows a man devoted to himself and the blessings of his attributed god. He struggles to survive a primitive life and is forced to take action to ensure his own prosperity.