Gift, The

At three o’clock every day, Nia phones Burke at the Appliance Repair Shop (motto: “We Repair Appliances!”) to organize the evening meal. At three o’clock. Exactly. Every day. Burke and Nia live inside safe and comfortable routines that pattern their work, their relationship, and their life together. Their morning bathroom routine is a mechanical ballet, their meals are consumed in precise synchronization. If not exactly joyful, the couple is at least exceedingly stable, until the germ of an idea is planted in Nia’s head by the magazines at the supermarket – her relationship is supposed to have romance! Emotion! “The Gift” is a darkly comic tale about trying to inject passion into a ritualistic relationship… and taxidermy!