Sam has been a ghostwriter for most of his career, but what he really wants to do is finish his first detective novel. But he's 75, and he fears time is running out, struggling to finish it before it's too late. With its New York setting, late-night timeframe, jazzy piano-and-sax score and classic sense of storytelling, the visual storytelling evokes old Hollywood film noirs, laying out clues to an unraveling mystery that Sam finds himself mixed up with as the night goes on. We meet him at a classic diner late at night as he tries to work on his book, but things aren't going so well. The proceedings take a nose dive when he leaves: he takes a fall, hits his head and then awakens to someone shaking him down for an unpaid debt. From there, the story unfolds with quirky, strange touches that add an element of the dreamlike to Sam's increasingly unsettling night.
He finds himself in the midst of some real-life mysteries. The lines between his real and fictional lives blur, giving him inspiration for his book.
Director: Will Pinke
Writer: Will Pinke
Star: Bill Gold, Regina Ohashi, Jeremy Holm