Parker Vanden Hoek

When a naive everyman stumbles upon a rabble of CPR-certified zealots, he undergoes a series of trials in order to become one of them.

Connell Byrne, an idealistic coal miner who sees the way the world could be, wants nothing more than to leave his small Appalachian hometown with his best friend Lee. However, Lee sees the way the world is, and there’s one obstacle that stands between them.

Workers at the restaurant “Benny’s Bistro” find a world-renowned food critic dead, face first in his last meal. The workers recount where they were during the shift to uncover who among them is to blame.

Misty awakes with a cold in a bed unfamiliar to her. At the foot of the bed, the owner of the place, Ashton, obsessively attends to her. He claims to have saved Misty from an accident in which she drove her car into a lake. Misty has no memory of this event and questions why she would act in such a way in the first place. Instead of easing her worries, Ashton leaves Misty alone so she can rest, but promises to check back in later. While trapped alone in the room, increasingly strange occurrences happen to Misty, and glimpses of the accident begin to surface. What truly happened at the lake? Who is Ashton, and does he know more than he lets on?

A sleep deprived college student struggles with what’s real and isn’t, as her nightmares leak into reality.