Dr. Evelyn Shaw, chief curator at a Boston art museum, records every word of the gallery audio tour herself. When a professional art thief named Felix Garrow rents a headset to scout the Dutch wing, her calm voice guides him through each room.
Swedish designer Astrid Lund draws the instruction booklets for a flat-pack furniture line, and some of her diagrams carry a few hidden steps.
Marketing strategist Dee Castillo creates a silly sound clip that spreads through a Chicago office tower in a single afternoon.
Ventriloquist Lola Briggs has played the same Branson theater for twenty years, and one heckler, Wade Hollis, has ruined her Thursday shows for the last six months.
App developer Celeste Moreau builds a gentle alarm that pulls you a little deeper each time you hit snooze.
At a comic convention in San Diego, costume designer Bianca Ruiz raffles off one handmade outfit every year, a butler from her own webcomic.
Osaka Robotics engineer Dr. Aiko Tanabe watches her former business partner, Shun Kuroda, unveil an android built on designs he stole from her.
A crew of bank robbers in Kansas City hires a mousy, soft-spoken driver named Lydia Parker because nobody would look at her twice.
Wren Halloway runs a cozy plant shop in Portland and gives every customer a free pothos cutting.
A phone scammer named Kyle reads his script to a sweet-sounding widow called Ruth Abernathy, not knowing she spent forty years as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Hana Vlček repairs antique porcelain dolls in a tiny Prague workshop. When a collector named Gerald Ashby cheats her out of her finest restoration, she invites him into the back room.
Barnaby Whitcombe, an inspector from a stuffy hypnotists’ society, travels to Atlantic City to scold the Great Delphine for using a swinging pocket watch, the most tired trick in the book.
Theo Walters, a tech reviewer famous for savaging gadgets, receives a prototype VR headset from its founder, Dana Matthews, along with a polite note asking for fairness.
In 1926 Chicago, burlesque star Ruby Sinclair performs every Friday for Dutch Connelly, a bootlegger who thinks he owns the club.
