Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin (2014)

Meet Evelyn and Godfrey. Evelyn is breaking up with her boyfriend, who is passing out advertisements for his band on a snowy street corner in Baltimore. She has seen their dismal future together at Dr. Chins office--she and her boyfriend, both many years older, singing “Happy Birthday” to a Chihuahua and arguing about cheese. She hopes for more. Meanwhile, Godfrey is proposing to his girlfriend, Madge, who has not quite willing to take that leap; she wants to see their future together first--just to be sure they are meant for each other. The Future for Curious People follows Evelyn and Godfrey’s soon-to-be-entwined lives, set in motion by the fabulist premise of a world with envisionists like Dr. Chin. As the characters struggle with their pasts and possible futures, they wrestle with sorrow, love, death, and fate.