The Bestowal

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2018, 90 minutes

A suicidal businessman is visited by an inter-dimensional being who appears in the form of a beautiful woman.

Steven Karius (Sam Brittan) sits contemplating his life on a dark, December night moments before he plans to kills himself. Just as he's about to pull the trigger, Death (Sharmita Bhattacharya), a beautiful woman in a blue gown suddenly appears in front of him. Shocked, he demands her identity and how she got there. She explains how she's an inter-dimensional incarnation of Death sent to prevent him from killing himself. He describes how he's grown tired of living in an unfiltered capitalistic society and that he's lost the will to live. She convinces him that there is an abundance of good in the world and that it's always worth fighting for. After giving him a renewed sense of hope for both the world and humanity, she persuades him to find a rare brush plant on the eastern slopes of Nairobi and once he does that, the path to Enlightenment will reveal itself. She tells him she will check in on him twenty years later, then vanishes. Twenty years pass and Steven sits meditating in his living room. He suddenly opens his eyes and Death appears in front of him yet again. Deeply pleased to see her, he recounts what has happened to him since their first encounter. After she left, a mysterious force compelled him to go to India, where he eventually came face to face with the Dalai Lama. Steven explains how he challenged him on his conceptual views of existence and his very notion of God. After six days of awe inspiring debate, he journeyed to Kenya to find the rare brush plant Death had told him to find. After finding it, a note appeared on his bedside table instructing him to go to a cafe at midnight in a crime infested part of town. He recounts how he went to the cafe and met a mysterious man who turned out to be an incarnation of God, who sent him on a mission to eliminate poverty with the help of a silver credit card containing an infinite amount of money.

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