Recently retired accountant Richard Flicker attends a life-drawing class and his world is turned upside down when he encounters free-spirited Amelia, the spitting image of a long lost love from decades ago. Grappling with a troubled home front, Richard flirts with the temptation of this second chance at romance.
A tormented young woman haunted by a recurring dream is catapulted into a peculiar and deviant world where she is confronted by the duality of her existence.
Told in a looping-narrative, “The Mushroom” is a short film about a couple who topples through a surreal free-fall where foraged mushrooms hold the macabre connection between life and death. Each repetition of the story reveals more ambiguous and nefarious layers of the characters being revealed.
