Fresh from med school and eager to prove himself, the arrogant Dr. Elliot Clarke begins an internship on the eerie Ward - N, where the staff tends to patients suffering from nostalgia, one of many mental conditions treated at The Institution for Despondent Melancholic Illnesses. As he sifts through memories searching for an answer to the ailment, Dr. Elliot finds himself struggling with the seductive illness he set out to cure. Nostalgic is a short film that presents, quite literally, the ways in which a longing for the past can lure a person in and make them ill.