Virtual Ben: First Playthrough

Our story joins Ben's life while he's a busy journalist at a New York City daily. We know journalist is just a label. We dig deeper to gain more intimate views of Ben as he navigates life out on the streets with all the other persons. We enter his home where he shares some humorous secrets of his private life. He also exposes his deepest fears.

At times it seems that Ben's reality involves merely jumping from one sensational personal crisis to the next. There's seldom a satisfactory resolution. With pleasant surprise we discover that he also has a gift for tripping into good fortune while in the depths his darkest times. We can proclaim gotcha when one of Ben's most serious faults routinely pulls him from his life goals. That's all about caving to the needs and demands of other people while neglecting his own needs. Ben finds life-changing romance with Emily. As their love blossoms, he doesn't understand his need to sabotage their precious love.

After he's nearly killed in a helicopter accident while on assignment he never feels quite connected to daily events or to the people in his life. He feels as if he's been shoved into some alternate reality where nothing quite makes sense. As his luck would have it, at a time when his journalistic career is in serious danger, he falls into a private assignment that makes him wealthier than he could have ever imagined.