A brief chat with the blind paperboy, Peoria Smith, reveals that the first of many unsettling events are starting. Peoria tells Umney that his mother has won the lottery and he will finally have the money needed for an operation to restore his vision. Umney should be happy, but he is actually disturbed by the idea of not seeing Peoria every morning. The boy feels the lack of enthusiasm and storms off, never to see Umney again.

Umney considers this strange, but lets it go and carries on to his office in the Fulwider Building. Getting into the elevator he encounters Vernon Kline, the elevator operator, and Bill Tuggle, an obese alcoholic accountant with a strong disliking for Umney. What begins as a simple elevator ride turns bizarre when Vernon reminds Umney of his upcoming retirement party, which Umney has no memory of. Tuggle steps in and confirms Vernon's story, accusing Umney of being "nutty as a fruitcake." Tensions rise and Umney bursts from the elevator to escape to the safe confines of his office.

Unfortunately, his office holds no sanity either. There Umney finds his beautiful secretary Candy Kane packing the last of her belongings into a box. "What are you doing?" he demands, and as if it's obvious she replies, "You're the detective. Can't you figure it out?" Of course he can, she's quitting. But why? According to her, Umney's drinking problem has gotten out of hand and he's become impossible to work for, especially since he refuses to call her by her real name, Arlene Cain. An argument ensues and she runs out of the office.

Umney is speechless. He has no idea what's going on. His secretary has always been named Candy Kane and never went by anything other, he's sure of it. He runs after her in demand of answers, except she's vanished. In the hallway outside his office Umney questions two painters who are renovating the building as to Candy's whereabouts, but they swear not ever seeing her. Umney erupts in a violent outburst and assaults one of them, demanding the truth. The painters are terrified, they know nothing. The only information they can provide is who hired them, the apparent owner of the Fulwider Building, a man named Samuel Landry.

Umney has no knowledge of the man, so he returns to his office to consult the only friend he can trust; the bottle of rye he keeps hidden in his desk drawer. Is he going crazy? Is the booze getting to him? Or is there something seriously wrong with his world? He ponders these questions, letting the events of the day play in his mind. As he examines each of the strange encounters of the day, he realizes that there is a link between them, the name Samuel Landry.

As if summoning him with his thoughts, Samuel Landry arrives in Umney's office. Umney wants answers, and Landry is ready to offer them, but with a warning that Umney may not like what he hears.

Landry explains that he is from the future, the year 2005 to be exact. And in 2005, he's an author, a writer of detective novels. And his most famous character is Clyde Umney. Umney has been living in a fictional world, inside the mind of an author, and is just becoming aware of it. Umney tries to deny it, but Landry proves it as truth by manipulating both time and space. As the creator, he is the God of Umney's world. And what does he want? To switch places with Umney, to live the life he never could in the "real" world. Landry wants to be a detective, go "racing around in cars at two in the morning and shoot it out with the bad guys knowing they'll die but he never will."

Seeing his life about to be stripped away, Umney tries to stop Landry, but nothing can be done. Landry takes over Umney's life and becomes the new detective. …but things don't work out quite as expected for Landry. Landry didn't count on one thing, what would happen by becoming a detective. He gave up his role as Creator, and Umney stepped into it. And now Umney has to finish his last case; to track down and kill the man who stole his life away piece by piece.

Crew:
Jason F. Brown - Producer
Leo Fialho - Producer
Magela Crosignani - Director of Photography
Chris Schuster - Production Designer/Art Director
Angrette Mccloskey - Costume Designer