Ball

3M, 90 mins

In Aurora, Colorado, Malcolm and Nathan are in purgatory.

While waiting in this limbo of basketball dreams (and a bus), the two characters, a talkative Malcolm and silent Nathan, are taken on a journey by Lebron James (whose physical features should not resemble the actual Lebron James and could be of a different gender, race, or body type than him).

On a journey of self discovery and perhaps catharsis, Malcolm and Nathan release their dreams of basketball and accept their lives as valuable while achieving a different path. Nathan comes to terms with the loss of basketball more easily than Malcolm. Once Nathan is truly free from the notions that society has thrust upon him, it is revealed that he is at the gates of heaven, having been dead the whole time, presumably a victim of police violence. Malcolm is then vindicated in the hopeless pursuit of becoming a professional basketball player, and begins the cycle anew.