Secrets of the Jeweled Flask

Vito Glandell is a fearful man approaching forty with little hope of ever determining his own fate. The overbearing mother he still lives with sees to that, with help from a Catholic priest who has been telling Vito what to do for as long as he can remember.

Then a strange, jewel-encrusted flask comes into Vito's possession, offering him hope of being lifted from his dreadful existence. But when the gin he sips from the flask renders his whole world gray, Vito loses his job as a paint salesm...