Sara (Vida Ghaffari) finds a notebook in a café that its owner
apparently has forgotten there, and she's determined to do what's right -
find out who the owner is and return it to him. Now finding out his name
is easy enough, but finding him is anything but, as there's no trace of
him on the internet, he's not in the phonebook, and despite careful
examination, Sara can't find a trace of him in the notebook. So she starts
randomly visiting those whose addresses actually are in the book, them
being an escort (Jon Mack), a tattoo artist (Christy McGinity Gibel), a
homeless schizophreniac (Marv Blauvelt) and a hopeless drunk (Kristin
West) - and all of those the book's owner has touched in a different but
profound way - and not always a good way, so much so that some call him
master, others fear him - but nobody can give Sara any clue how to find
him. But it's when Sara returns home from her excursion she's in for a
surprise ... Nice slow-moving mystery that really manages to
drag the audience in via clever storytelling, and manages to create the
perfect atmosphere of unease so the relative eventlessness of things is
more than outbalanced. And add to that a very subtle direction and a very
fine ensemble cast, and you've got yourself a very nice little short.
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