Four interwoven stories set in the World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001.

SYNOPSIS:

NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS TOP 30 and AUSTIN SEMIFINALIST: “The moment before Armageddon looks just like this, that’s what the script is telling us. Life is normal right up until the moment that it’s not. It’s funny and romantic, and spooky, and sad, and filled with powerful emotion.” “A compelling tapestry of young love, disillusionment, and culture collision. One of the best ensemble pieces I’ve read this year.” “A clever, markedly different approach to the tragedy of 9/11. A potential awards season contender.”

9/10 tells four interwoven stories that take place in the World Trade Center on the night before September 11, 2001, but the setting is only gradually revealed to the audience.

Roberto is a young Dominican-American elevator maintenance man who is pestered by an older black security guard, Walter, for playing loud music while he works, until Roberto reveals he’s trying to mask the sound of a woman he insists he hears crying in the elevator shaft.

During a party at Windows on the World, Colin is on the verge of proposing to his girlfriend Allison, who beats him to the punch by announcing she doesn’t want to get married, and whose obsession with the Titanic presages her own fate and that of her family, who have been firefighters for generations.

Scott is an alienated thirty-something gay man who’s just heard that his father has died and who must share his office with Sahar, a young Moroccan Muslim woman temping graveyard and husband-hunting in her spare time.

Finally, Grace is a tall white actress and Roy is a shorter Asian actor running lines in an empty office for an ill-fated Equity showcase of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, while teetering on the brink of career suicide—and an unlikely middle-aged romance.

In the course of 9/10, it is revealed in sometimes surprising ways that some of these people will likely be in the towers the following morning, but the movie is as much about the devastation of 9/11 as it is an elegy for the dream of New York City, and America, that came close to being lost that day.