- A vampire falls for a woman working at a donut shop.
- In 1994, in Toronto, the vampire Boya awakens from his twenty-five years of sleep in a basement hit by a golf ball. He takes a cab to the local cemetery, retrieves his belongings from a grave and lodges in a low budget hotel nearby an all-night donut shop. Boya does not drink human blood anymore but rats and pigeons blood instead. While in the donut shop, Boya befriends and protects the taxi driver Earl, who is having trouble with two criminals, and falls in love for the waitress Molly. Meanwhile, his former passion of 1969, Rita, who misses her lost youth, is trying to locate him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Boya, a vampire who went to sleep in 1969, is awakened in modern day Toronto by a stray golf ball. He becomes involved in the lives of a hapless cabby, an all-night donut shop clerk, a few local criminals, and his ex-lover from the 60's.—J.H. Locke
- A vampire named Boya is awakened from his sleep by a golf ball. He has not been awake since 1969, and marvels at his new surroundings. He does not feed on humans but instead on rats and animals. He meets up with a cab driver who is in trouble with some criminals, and a female donut shop worker who gets stuck in the middle. Befriending them both, they take on each others problems as he tries to protect them and at the same time endangers them by bringing them to the attention of an ex lover from years past, who has been seeking him since they parted. Now they must all form a bond of survival, instinct, passion, blood, and donuts.—Jaymes Warnock <pelefires@aol.com>
- Boya Zsekely [Gordon Currie] is a vampire. He can live forever...if he chooses. Sometimes he chooses to sleep for awhile. Last time he went to bed was in 1969, when Neil Armstrong destroyed the romanticism of the moon by walking on it. Boya stuffed his personal effects into a suitcase, buried it in a cemetery, then wrapped himself up in a burlap bag and went to sleep in the ceiling of an abandoned building in Toronto. Twenty-five years later, an errant golf ball wakes him up.
Molly [Helene Clarkson] works the night shift at Bernie's 24-hour donutshop. Their philosophy is "Any jerk deserves a well-made donut and a safe place to eat it." Anyone, that is, except for Earl [Justin Louis], whose problems are like bacteria. Breathe on them, and they multiply. Yet, when two neighborhood thugs, Pierce [Frank Moore] and Axel [Hadley Kay], come into Bernie's looking for Earl, Molly takes out her baseball bat, and Bernie sends them packing. Earl's not there anyway. He's out riding taxi. He just dropped off Boya Zsekely at the cemetery, commenting that the guy looked more like a customer than a visitor. [Okay, so ask yourself how you'd feel/look waking up from a 25-year sleep.] Lugging his suitcase, Boya rents a room at the Insmore Hotel, finds a rat for dinner, and then goes down the street to Bernie's to ask where he can get some fresh liver. Molly directs him to an all-night grocery store, but he buys a kiwi donut instead and sits down in a booth.
In the meantime, Pierce and Axel have found Earl and pressed him into doing a little service for them. They're going to collect 'rent', and they need someone to drive them there and back. When Earl hears a gunshot, however, he hightails it out of there. While Earl sits at a red light, rehearsing his excuse for driving off, a middle-aged lady hops in the back seat and asks to be taken to the cemetery. Must be the tourist season. Rita [ Fiona Reid] goes to the spot where Boya had buried his suitcase, sees that it's been dug up, and knows that Boya's back. Earl returns to the donutshop to have a cruller ("They're not ready yet")...ok, a glazed...when Pierce and Axel come in. They take Earl outside and start beating him up. Just as they're squeezing lemon juice into Earl's wounds, Boya joins them. He tosses Axel against a fence, then scratches his neck and licks off the blood. Pierce and Axel leave, and Earl and Boya go back inside the donutshop. After Earl tells Boya about all his problems, Boya offers to let him bed down in his room. After all, Boya doesn't need a lot of room...he sleeps in the closet.
Boya and Molly have been eyeing each other all night. When Molly is scared by a rat, Boya stalks it [in a crawl that's every bit as creepy as Dracula crawling like a lizard headfirst down the wall of the castle], drinks its blood, and tosses it in the garbage, leaving just a hint of blood on his lower lip. "I worked as an exterminator once," he explains to Molly. When Molly's shift is over, Boya walks her home, then he goes home and takes a bath while she sleeps fitfully in a scene that is probably the most erotic as I've seen in years, and the two of them aren't even in the same house! The next night, Boya goes back to the donutshop. While sitting at the counter, he looks up Rita's address in the phone book. Molly notices and asks if it's an old flame. It is, but it's a flame that burned 25 years ago. "Just reminiscing," Boya explains. "Each time you turn your back, a few more gone. Makes you want to withdraw." Molly understands, but "You can't go through life afraid to connect because the thing might end, right?" Boya replies simply, "Not 'might'."
Pierce and Axel, under orders from the crime boss to teach Boya a thing or two, come into the shop with a baseball bat, intending to rough him up. When Axel swings the bat, Boya grabs it and breaks it in two. Then Boya's face suddenly metamorphs into a monster with red eyes and long teeth. It does the trick, and the boys go running. "I worked in the circus once," he explains to Molly. After Molly's shift ends, Boya walks her home again. This time he kisses her, just as Rita is passing by in a taxi. She confronts Boya in a jealous girlfriend scene from which Glenn Close could take a few lessons. Rita is now in her fifties. Her skin is starting to sag, and she's no longer the beauty she was when she and Boya were together. She's spent the last 25 years stewing over what might have been hers if Boya hadn't disappeared and begs him to take her now. He refuses, so she runs a stake through his chest from behind. He pulls it out, says, "Don't believe everything you hear," and goes home to take a bath.
Earl, as brainless as he comes across, has figured out that Boya is a vampire. When he sees Boya in the bathtub with a hole through his chest, he offers to take him to the hospital, but Boya says that he heals fast. When Earl asks why Boya hasn't drunk from him, Boya explains that blood-drinking from humans is, for him, like donut-eating for humans. "You don't have to submit." Although Earl and Boya have become friends and seem to really care about each other, Earl figures that it's best to move out. Rita drops by and finds Boya sleeping in the closet ("You're really not a day person, are you?"), and begs him again to give her the gift. If he had done it 25 years ago, she could have kept her beauty and had all the time in the world. Boya still refuses, so she pulls out a gun and puts it to her head. Boya stops her from killing herself, but the bullet does graze her temple.
Boya has to get out of there even though it's daytime. He races across the street to the donutshop as his body starts to steam in the sunlight. By the time he reaches the door, he is crawling on the ground and his skin is charring. He manages to reach up, open the door, and crawl inside. Molly rushes to help him. Molly has figured it out, too. She cuts her own palm and lets him feed from her. He feeds and feeds until Molly has to pull herself away. "I thought I could control it," Boya moans and then passes out. Molly sits beside Boya while he sleeps on the donutshop floor until sundown, when he wakes up and walks out wordlessly.
Meanwhile, Pierce, Axel, and the crime boss have captured Earl and are about to cut out his tongue. Somehow, Boya can sense this. He leaps onto the fire escape and enters the room through an open window. As Boya drains the crime boss of his blood, Earl backs out the window onto the fire escape and falls off, landing on his back on the pavement below. Hurt badly, Earl crawls into his taxi as the thugs take shots at him. Boya tumbles through an open window into the taxi and helps Earl drive away. But Earl is in a bad way. Boya stops the car and helps Earl onto the ground. "I'm not afraid to die," Earl says, and dies. Just then, Molly drives up in Bernie's car. Not knowing how Earl died or how long ago, she rigs up a makeshift cardiac defibrillator out of a screwdriver and jumper cables. After being zapped several times, Earl begins to breathe again. Boya carries Earl to her car and, since the sun is rising, Molly tells Boya to get into the trunk. As the trunk closes, Molly drives off. Only after she gets back to the donutshop and opens the trunk does she find that Boya did not get in. At that very moment, as the sun is rising, Boya is lying on top of Earl's taxi, allowing himself to die. [Original Synopsis by bj_kuehl.]
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