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Dane is broke. He has a crappy job at a bar, an apartment which he shares with three housemates who never do the dishes, and no car. On his long walk home from work, he spots a flier in the window of an expensive looking house, which he thinks might be his ticket to a better life. “PA desperately required. Generous remuneration. Please deliver CV to front door.” Maybe his luck is about to change. He has never been a PA before, but how hard could it be?

Carl has had the week from hell, and when a weird old lady tries to talk to him at the bus stop on a Friday night, it is the last straw. Maybe, he is a little rude to her, but so what? She seems nuts anyway, fingers covered in silver rings in bizarre shapes and hair skewered with a wicked-looking pin. “You wouldn’t last one day as a lady, you mark my words” she says ominously.

After a failed attempt at building a new life in the big city, followed by a crushing breakup, Zach is moving back in with his parents - which means moving back to the small town he thought he had escaped forever. He doesn’t have high hopes - nothing ever changes in this place - but maybe he can catch up with people he lost touch with when he left. His Mom is cagey about where his old best friend James went though, and Zach starts to worry he might end up all alone here, with no friends and no way out.

Eric has finally reached the end of what he swears must have been the longest semester ever, and this weekend he has plans to celebrate. One of his friends is throwing a costume party, and the prize for most dramatic transformation? Turns out the guy hosting the party has an extra place on the ski trip he always takes over winter. Eric can definitely imagine himself on a snowboard, and he is determined to come up with the ultimate costume. He has always thought he might make a fairly attractive and convincing woman, but to pull this off he is going to need some help....

Henry and Ruby used to be the perfect couple - everyone said they seemed to be made for each other, but lately Henry has started to feel that they are more like strangers who share a bed. A couple’s counselor suggests that ‘solving problems together’ might help with their communication, but neither of them buy it. “I don’t think doing a jigsaw together is going to fix what’s wrong with us” says Ruby, derisively. Henry stares gloomily at his shoes, the change of heart from Ruby which he has been hoping for seeming further away than ever before.