2008 · Movie
Quid Pro Quo
Isaac Knott has been a paraplegic since he was eight years old, the result of a car accident that took his parents' lives. He has no illusions, but hopes one day to walk again. He is well known by name by those physically disabled in New York City as he is an on-air reporter/commentator for NPR, he often telling stories related directly or indirectly to disabilities, his own or that of others. He is provided an anonymous tip of an able bodied person going to a hospital requesting to have his legs amputated, that request which the hospital denied. He is provided a further tip by the same anonymous source which leads him to a subculture of able bodied people who have a fixation on physical disabilities, the most extreme of those, called wannabes, who want to be physically disabled themselves, such as the man who requested his legs be amputated. Isaac eventually meets the source, Fiona Ankany, an art conservator. In a quid pro quo, Fiona vows to tell Isaac what she knows about her friend who is within this subculture if he tells her about himself. In this quid pro quo, Fiona eventually admits that she is a wannabe. Regardless of this information, Isaac and Fiona fall for each other, Isaac's emotional and physical attraction to her being despite his last serious girlfriend, Raine, having only recently broke up with him, she with who he still hopes to reconcile despite the reason for breaking it off with him about which he can do nothing. However, directly or indirectly through his relationship with Fiona, Isaac experiences a major positive change in his life. Because of that change, Fiona offers him a deal, accepting what he wants which will result in something he doesn't want. The balance between Isaac and Fiona's relationship and the deal could tip if what he suspects to be the truth behind her motivations in being a wannabe is indeed the truth.
