The Cellar story
An accidental time-traveler has a romance with a woman a hundred years in the past. Directed by: Chris Long. Story by: Jessica Sharzer.
15 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| romantic love | choice | The story concerns Sam and Evelyn's ill-fated love affair. |
| time travel | choice | Sam accidentally traveled a hundred years into the past to the year 1919. Later, he briefly traveled into the future to the year 2034. |
| brother and brother | major | The bothers Sam and Jake Taylor were working together to fix up an old farmhouse. Jake grew worried about Sam when Sam confided in Jake that he'd traveled to the past and fallen in love there. |
| the desire for a simpler life | major | Jake chided Sam for fiddling with his cell phone too much with the implication being that Sam was embedded in a world of perpetual distraction. In the end, Sam found solace in the simpler times of 1919. |
| what if I could never go home | major | It seemed that Sam might never be able to return to his own time after accidentally traveling back to the year 1919. |
| what if I found myself in the past | major | Sam accidentally traveled a hundred years into the past to the year 1919. |
| alcohol in society | minor | Sam and Evelyn talked their way into a speakeasy and sampled the goodies there. Various attitudes to alcohol in 1919 were featured. |
| engaged couple | minor | Evelyn was looking for a way out of marrying her fiancé, William. |
| facing a home invader | minor | Evelyn pulled out a shotgun on Sam, a complete stranger to her, when he entered her home on a flimsy pretense. |
| future point of view | minor | Sam, who found himself 100 years in the past in the year 1919, was dumbfounded by the mentioning of rhubarb which was presumably no longer a inner staple in his time. |