An ironic drama unfolds in a cramped recording studio: a failed actor with a velvety voice and an empty wallet is narrating a book about easy money and instant success — *The Deep Vessel* — until he is driven to the brink by the absurdity and stupidity of what he is reading. His outburst escalates into a confrontation with the sound engineer, during which both men come to realise the full bitterness of their unfulfilled hopes. For a moment, they wonder: perhaps they are the failures, and the nonsense in the book is actually the truth?
