Synopsis

Connections are made through visual interpretations of vocally narrated prose.

An alarm clock displays images of United States area codes, and is then covered by falling sheets of paper, stamped with contact information after they hit the ground. Symbols for road signs appear on the screen, wiped out by black and white stripes, exposing the feet of a woman walking along a cracked sidewalk, as the words gesture, lie and secret move against her. The word secret is left alone, morphing first into a line, then into the outline of a young man. A closer view of one of his eyes, shows that lines delineating roadways and rivers are being formed from and out of it, eventually displaying a map. The map is then stamped by symbols for United States Interstate signs, as a car travels along the paths. A fire crackles on top of the image, and a hand reaches in to light a cigarette. The smoke from the cigarette forms an image of a couple embracing. A wad of paper falls from the sky, and the woman catches it. She tosses it over her head; it bounces, and wipes out the couple with a flat, solid color. The image of Benjamin Franklin on the one-hundred dollar bill appears on the surface of the solid sheet, which quickly peels over his likeness, revealing another flat, solid surface. Lines form, drawing a cityscape, which then merges into a solitary line. The remaining line shrinks, until it is no longer visible.