Logline:

A couple uses their love for each other and a magical spell to summon a galactic deity, but when they recite the spell's magic words, they learn there's more to magic than love…

Synopsis:

From the park bench where they first met, a young couple uses their love for each other and a magical spell to summon a galactic deity who will grant them a wish. When they recite the spell's magic words and the result isn’t what they imagined, they find a crack in their once solid relationship that threatens to undo everything. Also, there’s the matter of an intergalactic war between good and evil…

Director’s Statement

The thesis of this film is "Love is all you need, but only if you know it isn’t”. The young couple start out debating the question, “How do you evaluate happiness?” Then, against A backdrop of galactic significance, their relationship nearly crumbles. the couple in this story love each other, but they learn a hard lesson about trust, deference, and fragility as they attempt to summon an extradimentional deity and gain a magical wish. This piece also has some intentional layers built into the narrative. There’s the higher dimensional layer that, unbeknownst to the couple, the galactic deity occupies in its world of spacetime travel and intergalactic war. Then there’s the layer of the couples' understanding of each other beyond the surface of their mutual adoration - the shaky system of trust and imbalanced power dynamics of their relationship. And finally there's the layer between the film and the audience. e fourth wall is pierced at the top of the film in order to clue the audience in to these layers. In order to save film, we did a lot of table work on the script, which allowed us to find funny and efficient ways of exploring these themes and layers. This film features my three favorite collaborators: producer María Moreno, whom I've worked with on several projects; Noel David Taylor, an actor, director, and writer whom I have collaborated with on all sorts of comedy projects in the last decade; and Ashley Song with whom I have partnered with on many projects - sometimes with her as an actor, sometimes as a producer, and sometimes with her in the director's chair and me behind the camera. She is my biggest champion and harshest critic, and I hers, and in some ways this film is a love letter to our relationship.

- Joe Bowden