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Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her. Jane's efforts intensify, but her troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface causing her family, community, and authorities to question the authenticity of her account. Suddenly alone in her fight, Jane starts to doubt her own memory of the attack...to doubt if Monster exists at all.
Eli is a queer transmasculine person who starts driving for a rideshare company to pay for top surgery. He quickly learns that he has to pass as a cisgender male for emotional and physical safety. The problem is that he wasn't socialized as a male and lacks the nuance of being a 'man'. His nightly route starts by driving his best friend Niki, a professional dancer, to the strip club where she works. With each new passenger, Eli's performance of gender shifts and unfolds. The film explores the ways in which queer and trans people survive in the gig economy and navigate gender socialization.
Bailey and Amanda, a lesbian couple, are determined to have a baby and have created the perfect list of sperm donors, ranked by their ideal characteristics. However, every potential donor they select meets an untimely and bizarre death—falling tree branches, fatal spin classes, art installations gone wrong, and even skydiving accidents. Their "celebrity stretch goal" also meets a gruesome fate. As the deaths mount, Bailey and Amanda begin to wonder if their bad luck is just a coincidence, a curse, or something more sinister at play.
Filmed at the Crow Comedy Club in Santa Monica, California, Kai Choyce's onstage presence is laidback, putting you at ease until he pulls the rug out from under you, a wily smile on his face the whole time. He takes scenarios past their logical conclusion, with ridiculous, unpredictable, and, of course, hilarious results.
