Benjamin Maniquis

Winter and the Fox Benjamin Maniquis

Shawn was happy with the way things were. He was a sponsored snowboarder. He was dating a girl he thought was the love of his life and he was going to a good school. The future was bright. Was. Suddenly nothing makes sense. He's on the verge of a complete mental breakdown, stuck at some random house party in his old neighborhood, surrounded by strangers. That's when she appears. A strange girl in a fox outfit who offers Shawn a distraction. An escape from the disappointing pile of nothing his life has become. But instead of helping him out, she pulls him deeper. Into an insane journey through the mismatched pieces of his own fractured mind. A chaotic neon-lit dream world bursting with people and creatures who might be just as broken as he is. When he comes face to face with the true nature of this journey, Shawn realizes that the only real escape will come from dealing with the heaviness he carries in his soul or else continue to sink until he hits the bottom and stays there forever.