A white-collar worker with an all consuming passion for “success” spends her youth in corporate servitude in the name of delayed gratification. But what if gratification and fulfilment delayed is gratification and fulfilment forgone?

Director - James Stephen Roberts

Director Statement

I walked out of a corporate law job with a $250,000+ salary at 23 years old for one reason: to escape the growing sense of apathy choking young professionals in their twenties and thirties. Many of us trade our youth in exchange for a vague sense of credibility. All this for the sake of delayed gratification; however, we're failing to realise that pleasure and fulfilment deferred is often pleasure and fulfilment forgone. As a directing debut, this piece questions whether the enjoyment of life is a skill to be developed in the present rather than an effortless state of existence mysteriously handed to us in the future.