Open is a story about profound yet simple lessons that life offers through our natural environment, and how those lessons can be perceived by one who seeks them.

Jack Donahue is a 40ish man in New York whose repeated failures in life have brought him to the point of constant depression. He works in a dreary furniture store where he is pushed around by his cruel boss, Victor.

Jack's  landlord Petelka also has no sympathy for Jack due to his continued failure to pay the rent.

Unfortunately, these are the only two relationships he has left in life. Although his frustration is mounting, Jack has to swallow it just to get by.

Jack’s ability to get by starts slipping away entirely though, when Victor finally traps him into a seemingly impossible ultimatum: Show $5000 worth of sales in the coming week or lose his job.

Desperate, and with his options diminishing, Jack is thrown by providence in the cave of a psychic, Tasha, who seems to understand his troubled life immediately and asks him to pick a tarot card from the deck.

The card Jack chooses has an “open eye” on it. She tells him that he just has to open his eyes and in the little things around him he will begin to see a way out of his troubles. Jack, disappointed leaves Tasha’s cave without saying a word. Tasha tells him that he will return to thank her in the future.

Jack reaches home and breaks down.  

With the next day however, come profound lessons from little things around him, like the flow of water and the beauty of flowers. A kind of magic starts happening in his life. He finds the strength to act outside the parameters of his comfort zone and starts breaking down his emotional and mental limitations. People around him are shocked to see the sudden change in his behavior. He seems unstoppable.

Over the course of this pivotal week he manages to escape Victor’s control, reconcile with an old lost buddy, reunite with his estranged mother, and even befriend his lonely landlord, Petelka.

All these newly formed and revived relationships are a good start, but they’re still full of tension. No one quite understands this “new” Jack. In reality, neither does Jack. He feels as if he is under Tasha’s spell.

Realizing that Tasha was right, he goes back to thank her. Jack is shocked and saddened to find a crowded funeral service going on in her place. Tasha is dead. He approaches her body and quietly thanks her. He sees the deck of cards sitting next to her in the coffin and nostalgically picks them up to thumb through them. He sees his open eye card, and another open eye card, and another and another. All the cards are open eye cards!

Feeling confused and cheated, he looks around. All the people are smiling at him. They all pull the same card out of their pockets. Jack smiles. He keeps one card for himself and leaves.