Tagline
A second chance is the eye of the beholder.
Short Synopsis
Winnie (Jamie Schiller), a working class psychic finds herself in an oddly powerful position when a young man, Jack (Andrew Zagozdon), asks her to predict the outcome of a basketball game. With the prediction, Jack intends to put money down on the winner and get himself out of debt. She reluctantly tells him what he wants to hear and he leaves thinking that his money problems are over.
After finding drugs in her brother’s jacket pocket the next day, Winnie sees Jack unexpectedly as he is getting money to put on the game. Drawing a parallel between Jack and her brother, Winnie tells him what she wanted to say the day before.
Long Synopsis
While walking his bike aimlessly, Jack (Andrew Zagozdon), a twenty-something, comes across a sign advertising psychic readings. He meets a young woman named Winifred (Jamie Schiller) who promises to tell him his future. When Jack asks Winnie to predict the winner of the Bulls/Knicks game the next night, she is taken aback – she is used to answering questions about love or money. As Jack reveals that he is in debt and intends is to put all of his money on Winnie’s projected winner it becomes increasingly clear that he suffers from a gambling addiction. Winnie attempts to veer him into a different direction but fails. This forces her to wrestle with an “unpredictable” dilemma. Should she do her duty and tell the stranger what he wants to hear or break character and intervene? Incapable of reconciling, she opts to use a bogus and stereotypical psychic method while randomly choosing a winner. Thoroughly satisfied, Jack leaves her office further enabled by his vice.
We later return to Winnie now outside of her paranormal obligations. During her trip to the grocery store she borrows her brother’s jacket only to discover it contains a white powder in a little baggie. Incensed, she disposes of the drugs in a nearby dumpster.
As she marches away Winnie notices Jack walking into a money transfer station. The choice from the preceding day is now revived in full emotion like déjà vu: paramnesia. Winnie now faces the dilemma again, but this time she has no restrictions. Her own self-image of an enabler coalesces as she says what she wanted to all along.
