Reality or Penalties is a speculative documentary about time and the way we weave the previous into the current and our attainable future. Set within the small desert city of Reality or Penalties, New Mexico, the movie takes place within the shadow of a close-by Spaceport and the business exploration of house. By way of the lives of the individuals on the town and a filmmaker from the longer term, the movie explores progress, echoes of historical past, and the way we every navigate a way of loss, inside ourselves and inside a altering world.