opens with what proves to be its best scene, one that could stand alone as a brilliant short subject. As the titles roll, Zia (Patrick Fugit), a young man, slowly and methodically cleans his messy apartment. He appears to be ready to make a new start of things. Once that last item is put away and the final bit of dust swept up, Zia heads to the bathroom to neatly slit his wrists and carefully bleed directly into the sink. As he falls to the floor, he's annoyed to find one last dust bunny in the corner of the bathroom that he missed. Not even in death can things go right for Zia. He dies only to wake up in an afterlife way station reserved for those who commit suicide. This world is much like the one he left, which prompts him to conclude who could think of a worse punishment, everything's the same, only worse. After hanging out in this drab, monotonous limbo for a while, Zia considers killing himself again, but hesitates when he decides he could end up in an even worse place.
