Fancy a little diversion from the festive juggernaut?

Alex Grybauskas’s multi award-winning short is a new take on the classic ‘deal with the Devil’ premise, exposing the absurd human habit of rationalising evil in order to get the things we want.

On the floor of a bar restroom, a man on his deathbed is met by Danny Pickler: a former classmate of his … who died twenty-six years ago. On the brink of damnation, he is offered a deal that could save his life – but in the process may destroy his humanity.

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