The Cards of the Gambler

The stage is set for the telling of a story... A Dublin doctor, ruined by alcohol and card-playing, is sent to find a priest to baptize his newborn son. In a seedy lounge bar, he comes across a strange party of men accompanied by a handsome, golden-haired priest who introduces himself as God. Later the same day, in another bar, he meets a vulgar little "contact man," carrying a briefcase and wearing rings of solid gold, who announces that he is Death. God allows the gambler three requests, two of which enable him to live a prosperous, if somewhat empty, life, and the third of which he can use to cheat Death. Based on a folk-tale from West Donegal, this is a timeless story of a gambler's soul, and a universal tale of the search for forgiveness, peace, and lost innocence.