Shot and produced in 48 hours, Contained is the story of Hope, a young woman living in an inner-city apartment building who picks up the slack of her ailing superintendent father. Longing for a better life far away from the confines of the old apartment building, and from the strange, idiosyncratic tenants who live there, she befriends an old man who entrusts to her the delivery of a strange, mysterious box. Unsure of the box's contents, Hope needs only remember one thing: the box must not be opened.