Ben is an aspiring movie writer who is buying a book online to help with his craft. He sees others have bought a book called Plot Devices and he decides to pick that up at the same time. When it arrives though, Ben finds that it is not a book but some sort of box with a button on top. Hitting the button sees his front yard suddenly have a soft sepia touch to how it looks and a woman that has loved him all her life but perhaps not known it to this moment is running towards him in her wedding dress to profess this love and thus live happily ever after. Not knowing what else to do, Ben hits the button again and finds him and his black partner pinned down in a gun battle with villains - there is a bomb to defuse and his partner only has a few days to go before retirement.