WINDFALL short

A rich, entitled young female buys a scratch off lottery ticket. As she exits the convenience store, her path is blocked by a homeless woman begging for food money. Believing in Karma, she gives the homeless woman money in hopes of improving her chances of winning. The donation process goes terribly wrong but eventually she makes it to her expensive convertible car and begins scratching off the ticket. Events occur and the ticket soars away on a gust of wind. The rich bitch takes off after the ticket but fails to catch it. Upset she's going to be late for cheerleading practice and possibly cut from the team because of her chronic lateness, she speeds down the highway. Ultimately, the ticket saves a baby left in a hot car and minutes from death, saves a deaf man from being blinded and saves a plutonium core from crashing onto the floor and exposing a neighborhood to radiation. Also, Miss entitlement becomes embroiled in a horrible traffic jam and learns the delay caused by her giving money to the homeless woman and chasing the ticket saved her life. Finally, the lottery ticket ends up in the dumpster next to the convenience store where the ticket was purchased. The Homeless Woman seen in the beginning scene finds the ticket when she is scrounging through the dumpster for food. She finishes scratching the ticket. It's a winner. She plays forward true karma and helps others. After cashing in the lottery ticket, it lives on within a frame on the homeless woman's wall until another earthquake flutters the ticket and three friend tickets back into the streets.