There is a flashback scene at the beginning of this film that I really enjoyed for giving me a completely false idea about where it was headed. This film sits in an uncomfortable place - the space between an employee's desire to keep their job, do enough to please their bosses but also find some kind of satisfaction in the work itself and the boss's need to exercise control and keep the people working for them in the dark about the larger context. Emerson (immensely well played by Jeff McDonald) is the mercurial, inscrutable boss who is trying to empathize but keep at a distance Asher (Steve Kasan), a young man coming off a streak of bad luck who just wants to hold onto the deeply weird and vaguely offputting job he's found himself in. This film was made for in the neighborhood of 18k and is a triumph as much as Primer in making so much story out of so little.