Sam has always been obsessed with vampires from the time he was a child watching them on children’s programs to when he was a college student reading horror novels on the side.On Sam’s 21st birthday, a mysterious gentleman offers him a peculiar career choice: become an assistant to a real life Vampire. Intrigued and enthusiastic, Sam takes the job and meets Simon Bolivar, a 400-year old Vampire. Everything about the Vampire does hold some truth to it; a truth followed by a dose of hard-reality. Sam soon realizes that it is not so cool or pleasant to serve his corrupt and neurotic behavior. Told from Sam’s point of view, The Familiar is for anyone who has ever pursued a dream only to watch that dream slowly twist into an unrecognizable nightmare. Be careful what you wish for…it may come back to bite you in the end!