A History of Magic

Las Vegas is a city in flux. People come and go, either because they think they can win it big and leave all their problems behind at the tables, or because they feel like whatever they’re missing in their lives, they’ll find it under the neon lights and marquees of the Boulevard. For those who were born there, it’s just another city where college is too expensive, jobs are too few, and very little happens.Carly is one of those few, struggling to finish a degree she doesn’t know what she’d do with when she got it. To distract herself from the stress of college life, she goes to club meetings at an off-strip magic shop, where amateur magicians gather and show off for one another.Gunnar meanwhile brings his act from Iceland to Las Vegas, and finds himself in need of a new assistant. When an audition in an off-strip hotel brings them together, Carly soon finds there are things more stressful in her life than college credits when she gets caught up in the middle of keeping her dream job and keeping her life in one piece in the wake of Gunnar’s ulterior motives for moving out to the desert.