Award-winning writer/Director Terrance Odette’s first feature Heater, stars Gary Farmer and Stephen Ouimette as two homeless men who form an unlikely bond when trying to get a refund on a stolen baseboard heater to buy a pack of smokes. The cold winter streets of Winnipeg provide the setting of this neo-realist journey full of catch-22 irony. Ben (Gary Farmer) desperately needs his welfare cheque to pay his rent - a couch in hallway of a shifty Landlord. He can’t get his cheque without his ID, which was stolen the previous night by another renter. To replace the ID he has find $30, which he doesn’t have. Getting nowhere with a very dispassionate Welfare Worker, Ben heads to the local drop-in shelter where he meets up a scrappy fella. The unnamed man is there to get treatment for his sore feet and to try to hock a stolen baseboard heater. Not really in the mood to be hustled, Ben tries to get the man to leave him alone. The Social Worker misinterprets the scene and kicks out both Ben and the man for breaking the rules - trying to buy and sell on site. Now out in the cold, still needing to raise the money, Ben notices the receipt attached to the heater and convinces the man let him help him return it to a store some distance across the city. At first reluctant, the man realizes that he might get more than the 20 bucks he’s asking for if he takes the chance and accepts Ben’s offer.