Flyin' Fur Films

Halfway There

Synopsis

When her high tech business fails in the midst of the dot com crash of 2000, MARLA BLANE takes her own life, leaving her best friend and business partner, SUSAN, devastated. Also present on that day is BOB, an obnoxious whiner who only came back for his last paycheck.

Marla's spirit winds up on the astral plane, which is disguised as a hospital room, where she gets a review of her past lives--Vincent van Gogh and Cleopatra, to name a few--by her guide, NURSIE. The past lives all have one common thread: they all committed suicide.

Marla's sent back to the physical world to "get it right", and for some "payback". She can't start over as a newborn because she's used up too many lifetimes, all with the same result. Thus, she's the same physical Marla, but now is a hard-nosed manager of a burger barn/pool hall, again alongside her friend, Susan, now a waitress. Bob's back, too, this time as a waiter and self described opportunist pig, who's only passion is for getting Marla's job.

In this lifetime, Marla needs some time to warm up to Susan, who, on the surface, appears not to be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but who is eventually revealed to have deep natural artistic talent as a painter.

Marla and her friend make plans to open a bed & breakfast, in part, to showcase and sell Susan's paintings, in a small Northern California town.

On a trip to San Francisco to pick out curtains for the B&B, in a mini past life flashback--seems Nursie forgot to turn those off when she turned off the past life memories--Marla recognizes the building which had housed the failed dot com. Eventually, in the office which had originally been her high-tech biz, as Marla experiences more flashbacks, Susan, waiting for her in the reception area, has a debilitating stroke.

Following Susan's admittance to a hospital ER, yet another hidden surprise surfaces, which angers Marla fervently, now feeling betrayed and lied to. Nursie, who, to Marla, is now just a stranger with some motherly advice, causes her to recognize "...who's really having the bad day."

Marla cares for Susan during her convalescence, all the while, being confused by more flashbacks of their relationship in the other lifetime, which parallel their current bond in one way or another. During the process, Marla spends all her savings on Susan's rehabilitation; savings which had been intended for the down payment on the B&B.

Will Marla's spirit learn anything from this lifetime? Will she feel Susan's pain at the abandonment by her best friend? Will she finally make it to her ultimate reward, the next dimension?