Waydowntown

Tom, Sandra, Curt, and Randy are twenty-something colleagues who work and live in downtown Calgary. "Work" and "live" are stretching the terms as they really try just to survive in their meaningless jobs for Mather, Mather and Mather while amusing themselves. They've made a $10,000 bet with one another on who can stay inside the longest, which they can do since their apartments and offices are all connected by a series of enclosed overhead walkways. Approaching the end of the first month of the bet which coincides with the retirement party for the company's well-respected founder, Mr. Mather, each reflects on the bet and their lives. Unfocused Randy would hate to lose the bet on a circumstance outside of his control. After hearing that she is living in an environment of recycled stale air, Sandra becomes paranoid about being inside as she conducts her unofficial job, following Mr. Mather, a kleptomaniac, during his lunchtime "shopping" spree. Curt feels that he's an easy winner of the bet if he can just satisfy his sexual needs, his latest sexual target being co-worker Vicki. And Tom is wondering if his meaningless life is making him become desensitized to the important things in life, especially as he deals with two despondent people: a jealous boyfriend named Paul, and a suicidal co-worker named Brad, who Tom has mockingly coined "Sadly I'm Bradley".