Set in Texas across three fragmented timelines, The Other Side is a nonlinear time-travel thriller told through the interwoven perspectives of David, a nostalgic dreamer; Fred, his dangerously ambitious friend; and Robin, David’s son summoned through time to complete his father’s mission.

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In The Turntable, a dimly lit blues bar tucked beneath an aging apartment somewhere in Texas, David and Fred toast to friendship. They live above the bar, broke but bound by dreams and a shared history. Unlike David, Fred is ready to move on. Their landlord, Antoinette, announces she’s closing the bar. She shows David a dear old “magical” record player. She’s half-joking, but it stirs something in him.

Fred reactivates a connection with Mustache, a crime boss from his past, who proposes him a new job: a high-stakes heist to steal a record player rumored to manipulate time. Fred pulls David in. Marie, the operation’s strategist, joins the team. Mustache leaves them with one clue—a mysterious vinyl disc.

That night, David places the disc on Antoinette’s turntable—and time slips. He finds himself decades earlier, facing a younger Antoinette who explains the device’s true nature. Back in the present, David realizes: the real turntable never left the bar. The heist is a hoax.

David confesses to Antoinette, confirming he’s the man she once met in her past. She always knew—but now, she trusts him. David buys the bar with his remaining savings and begins to pull away from both the plan and from Fred.

Tensions rise. Fred feels betrayed. David throws a party at the bar and spends the night with Marie. They fall in love. Meanwhile, Fred reconnects with Joan, a manipulative ex who seduces him with validation and ambition. Their dynamic turns toxic. Joan fuels Fred’s ego, urging him to take more, to lead.

David and Fred visit the museum. David reveals that the record player on display is a fake. Fred doesn’t get it—his mind still spinning from Joan’s ideas of power and control. Back at the bar, David shows Marie the real turntable. That’s when Marie reveals her secret: Mustache is her father.

Fred snaps. Sensing Fred’s instability, Mustache shares the myth behind his own rise.

Fred listens, but the story falls flat—just another man behind a mask. Enraged, he shoots Mustache in the head and flees with his money.

In the future, Robin, now 25, returns to the abandoned apartment above the bar. He finds the turntable, old photographs, and three numbered vinyl records inside a large wooden box. When he plays Record No. 1, he falls through time—landing in the past, staring at the parents he never truly knew.

Through successive time jumps, Robin learns the truth: he was summoned. David and Marie, with nothing left, reached into the future, hoping their son could witness their story—and carry it forward. Robin meets them not as ghosts, but as people—flawed, loving, frightened. And in them, he begins to see himself.

Fred is coming. The past tightens its grip.

David and Marie spend their final night together. They prepare in silence and leave behind a note to their son.

Robin plays the third record. The apartment is different now. Shadows of violence hang heavy in the air. He hides with his child self as Fred storms in with two goons. A confrontation unfolds like a quiet war—measured, intimate, inevitable.

David, realizing that Robin is watching—and with no way to speak to him directly—makes an impossible choice.

To protect Marie from what Fred might do, and to send Robin a final message, David shoots Marie in front of the glass-top dinner table, grabbing his son’s attention. In that moment, he sends him a subtle cue.

“Take a seat.”

Fred kills David. The record keeps spinning. They flee. Moments later, Antoinette runs up the stairs for five-year-old Robin.

Robin returns to the present. Tears. Silence. Blood on vinyl. He breaks the final disc.

He takes a seat.

Lifting the glass of the dinner table, he finds two leather duffel bags stuffed with cash, and a folded handwritten note.

“Robbie, come back <3”

With trembling hands, Robin places Record No. 1 back on the turntable. He picks up the bags.

The needle drops.

It scratches.