The Alexandrite

A time-travel noir that slips between the shimmering worlds of modern and mid-century Los Angeles. When Jack Cade is fired from a no-pay production of Hamlet he has no inkling his next role will be opposite Marilyn Monroe - forty years back in time in 1956. As a down-and-out aging actor Jacks luck and life change when hes anonymously sent a pawn ticket for an alexandrite ring. After his wife leaves him a mysterious woman asks him to meet her at an old mansion deep in the San Fernando Valley. With nothing to lose Jack decides to go. Once he steps through her door he enters a world of beguiling physics and plain old magic to travel through time. Through a dark glitzy whirlwind of events Jack meets Marilyn gets killed more than once and emerges with the jewel that changes his destiny. He discovers the answers to all his life-and-death questions within the constantly shifting colors of the alexandrite.