Off to War

This 25 minute drama is a fragile psychological piece about a man taunted with his the gaps in his self-image when he was not permitted to serve in Viet Nam. His distress over it and his curiosity and self-worth meet with a surprise at an ancient hotel that claims to have hauntings of wounded soldiers. On a lark, he and his wife take a room, with the lead joking about ghosts. The joking raises a few insights from his wife about his fascination with the ghosts of wounded soldiers. She forces him to tell the story of how he was prevented from serving in the Viet Nam war and he carries weighty, but hidden guilt over it. The same night he dreams. And the dream shocks him into a revelation about himself that upsets him. The dream then becomes a question of dream fantasy or a metaphysical actuality. 25 minutes. Three characters. No special effects, except for some make-up work.