Late-shift tasks
Open the store, handle returns, help customers, and close up after dark.
Story
The last rental of the night is not in the system.
Kyle works late shifts at a small video rental store that feels stuck in the 1990s: fluorescent lights, buzzing neon, returned tapes, soda orders, customers looking for one more movie before closing. One night, an unlabeled VHS appears in the return bin.
In the back office, Kyle plays it. The tape shows still photos, typed captions, static, and distorted audio. It seems to document the store's past, but the footage becomes more personal with every viewing: the back room, the apartment hallway, the road through the woods, and moments that should not have been recorded.
