A waitress with no present. A man with no future. A woman escaping her past. Each will be intertwined for one night. Three lost lives, two necessary decisions, one predetermined fate.

SYNOPSIS:

Set in Utica, NY, an unnamed man with a dead end job and life walks into a bar room after his night of working watching metal rust as a night guard of a metal works and lumber yard. Faced with the knowledge that his life is going nowhere and he has no means of escape, the waitress at the bar, a rather unattractive and portly woman, and he begin talking about their lives and their futures. We soon discover these two are good friends.

Soon after, a friend of the guard comes with his one night stand date. The man realizes, yet again, he has been lied to about being introduced to someone he might enjoy being around and, along with the waitress, is insulted by the floosie, leaving the man even deeper in an emotional hole. That night, the guard and the waitress text each other while they both wish for the same thing: Someone to care for them.

The next day, his friend calls the guard and invites him to dinner as a means of apologizing. At the diner, both the friend and the guard see this amazingly attractive girl sitting alone at the counter. The friend tries to hit on her and the man figures he will be left hanging yet again. However, after returning from the bathroom, the man sees his friend putting on his coat, angry that the girl rejected him and storms out of the diner.

The man sees the girl, and overcoming his deep sense of inadequacy and fearful shyness, goes up to her and speaks a few words to try to "pick her up." The girl, however, barely listens and begins to berate the man's intentions. The man starts to recoil, but the girl sees the man is sincere in his responses to her and invites the Guard to join her, stating that her night is going nowhere and talking to a stranger is better than talking to no one.

The man then realizes he misjudged the girl. . .she's just as lost and lonely as he is. The man takes the girl to his beat up car as she has agreed to spend the night with him due to his outwardly warm disposition. In the car, they talk about their lives and their plans and how everything has gone to Hell for one reason or another.

What begins as a night of a possible one night stand turns into a night of self-reflection, acceptance of mistakes, and possible reconciliation with the past with a hope for the future. However, by the time day breaks, one will make a decision that will affect both lives, leaving one seeking solace by searching for the good they have also lacked and the other searching the direction they've always desired.

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