Soul 3D 2020. Joe Gardner is a middle school music teacher in New York City. He dreams of performing jazz professionally. He earns a gig with saxophonist Dorothea Williams. He falls into a manhole and dies. His soul travels to the Great Before. Joe refuses to pass on. He poses as a mentor and is assigned to twenty-two, a soul who despises Earth. Twenty-two agrees to help Joe return. They accidentally enter Earth together. Twenty-two inhabits Joe’s body. Joe becomes a therapy cat. Twenty-two experiences life through Joe’s senses. Joe receives his gig. He realizes his life had meaning beyond his dream. He returns to the Great Before to free twenty-two.