The Spade of Reason
Channel: CaxtonFilms
Date: 2012-03-08

Abandoned, young Caxton looks for a message from his father in random arrangements of letters in a board game.  Later he persuades his friend Evelyn to program her computer to create lists of random letters - random texts - for him. But there is no message.
 
Growing up, they use more and more sophisticated computer programs, sifting through the masses of randomness they generate.  Sometimes they find hints of meaning; a scrap of an idea from a famous philosopher, a paragraph from a physics text from the future, bot nothing that could be a message meant for Caxton.

In search of more processing speed so they illegally shift their work to government systems. Abruptly they come to the attention of the law and Caxton is sent to the locked ward for the criminally insane at the state hospital.  It seems the project must come to an end.  

But Caxton has a surprising insight while he's at the state hospital. Perhaps there are more ways than one to find meaning in randomness.