Plot

Filmmaker Harry Little, introduced in 2018's award-winning "A Little Touch of Harry", isn't the world's most popular or successful writer/director - he claims to have only seven fans - but he has a head full of movie ideas, none of which involve comic book characters. On April 1, 2018, while in the middle of shooting his fortieth feature, Harry is killed in the most preposterous possible way - he's hit by a piece of the Chinese Tiangong 1 space station that did not burn up during re-entry, making him the first person to ever be killed by a piece of space junk. Harry becomes the unwilling donor in a heart transplant operation, the recipient of which is the dreaded Julia Philkins, "the biggest shark producer in Hollywood", before finding himself at The Re-Cycling Center, an ethereal netherworld where he awaits his Letters of Transit so he can be re-cycled back to real life. His case worker at the center is Ariel, a vivacious young woman from Fort Lee, New Jersey, who had dreamed of becoming a film actress before her untimely demise in the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic. Harry and Ariel's topsy-turvy May-December romance plays out while Julia creates chaos in Hollywood by morphing into another Harry and abruptly turning away from CGI-driven comic book films to intimate human stories. Julia drags the rest of the industry's copycat producers with her, leaving 5.000 VFx artists out of work and the streets of Hollywood looking like a remake of the last reel of "The Day of the Locust." The premiere of Julia's new film and the opening night of Harry and Ariel's stage production at the Re-Cycling Center Theater coincide, resulting in a collision of the forces of life and death, love and loss.—Neill Fleeman