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Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the curious lives of Jon and Cat, a young couple who are developing politically left-leaning virtual reality video games. Against the busy backdrop of their art practice, we sit in on their quiet rural life, which, in its proximity to nature and the vast green and oceanic spaces that surround, echoes the romanticism of a simpler time. As the decaying world of physical labour and the mechanical industry faces up to an expanding digital empire, Jon gradually retreats into the alternative realities of his own design.

After uncovering a strange stain on his bedsheets, a mild-mannered man struggles to return to his routine.

A disgruntled film production assistant seeks advice from a young, eccentric producer with sadistic tendencies.

After finding a strange DIY magazine at a coffee shop, a filmmaker attempts to uncover the identity of its anonymous author.

A man happens upon the suicide of an acquaintance, as well as his less-than sincere suicide note drafts.