New Personal Best

Logline: An overworked insomniac trying to make enough money at a coffee shop to start a doggy daycare business so he can spend more time with his dog meets an attractive yet conniving woman who gives him a chance to play a dangerous game. If he wins, he gets the money. If he loses, she gets what she wants from him. The ordeal culminates in a shocking twist.

Chris, an overworked insomniac, works as a barista at a coffee shop. As if working overtime at his coffee shop to raise money to start a doggy daycare business to spend more time with his sociable dog, Bailey isn't enough, he has to deal with the rise in missing person's cases across town, with one of those women being his own girlfriend, who was pronounced dead after months of no progress. Suddenly, his luck changes when he comes across a woman named Lucy, a rich, attractive woman who wins him over. She invites him to a hotel to play a card game of Hangman, promising that he will get the exact amount of money he needs to open his business. He accepts, especially for his dead girlfriend. However, if Lucy beats Chris in his game, she gets exactly what she wants: Chris' soul. Chris must make a choice - will he take the safe route and continue slaving away at his job, holding out for a business venture, or will he risk losing all he in the process of pursuing everything he wants, even as it sits at his fingertips?