I Am The Messenger

Ed Kennedy, a cab driver of 19, and, according to himself and his friends and family, the most unsuccessful and stagnant being alive, gets nothing out of his day to day life. But he also feels like it should be that way. Ed goes about each day driving his cab, calling home a shack with a 17 year old, coffee addicted dog named the Doorman, and playing cards most nights with his three only friends. Or, to put it into his words, nothing.
But life begins to change for Ed when the bank he’s in is held up by the most incompetent bank robber of all time, and Ed points a gun at the nylon faced man as he attempts a getaway. Ed is seen as a hero, but more importantly, for the first time in his life, he is seen, and that’s when this change becomes dramatic. Ed receives a most peculiar note in the mail, an Ace of diamonds, which has written on it three addresses and corresponding times. Ed wonders about this, but finally goes to the first address, at the listed time, and bears witness to an alcoholic man who rapes his wife. Ed realizes that whoever sent the card has given him a task, one that he has no choice but to complete. Whoever sent the card chose Ed to care about, and to act on, the people and situations listed on the cards.
Ed transforms others into better, happier people, and in turn, transforms himself. Gone is the man who agrees with the rest of the world that he will amount to nothing. In his place stands a man who is a genuine hero, one who reaches out to the people who he is assigned to in beguiling yet unsentimental ways. Sometimes, his job short and simple, and he feels truly good to complete those tasks, while others leave him mournful, and are true hurdles he has to overcome. Throughout the entire journey Ed takes, the question always remains in the back of hi mind: who is sending these assignments, and why? Ed finally begins to realize the point of his journey when he receives the hardest card of all: The Ace of hearts.