"A Bad Time" Opens with the interview of the mother of the drug addict. She is looking a drawings her son made as a child and talking about how creative he used to be. Right after this the father is then interviewed however we do not get to see his interview until later in the film.
Cut to the drug addict flat where we see him as he is just woken up, heading to the bathroom, looking tired and worn down. He splashes his face with water from the sink before turning and see the drugs he left there from the night before. We then see him shoot up in his bathroom before passing out again. #
After waking up he hears a knock at the door and is confronted by his drug dealer to whom he owes money. After telling the dealer he doesn't have anything the dealer then grabs him by the throat, and threatens him, telling him that be better get the money he is owed by 9pm.
Cut to the addict walking around the harbour, trying to phone people, we don't see who he is trying to call but he gets no answer, we then see i'm sitting on a bench waiting for quite some time. As this is happening we see the father and his work colleagues leaving for lunch after a meeting of some sort. When they get outside the addict approaches his father begging for money. The father reacts negatively, pretending he has no idea who his son is and saying his own son died many years ago. It is at this point that the fathers interview is shown when the audience get to see how truly disgusted he is towards his own son.
After the interview, we cut to the addict once again, standing around near the building his father works at, while the two colleagues we saw earlier are walking by. They then recognise the addict and offer to give him money as long as he sings and dances for them. Though humiliating the addict does so due to sheer desperation for cash. After being humiliated, the addict gets the money and leaves to go home.
Back in his home, we see the addict sitting with the money in his hands, waiting for his dealer. He now has enough to pay the debt and get his next fix. The dealer arrives and the two exchange the money and the drugs. After this the addict proceeds to shoot up again. This time the trip being more intense, both for the addict and for the viewer to watch. As the addict begins to overdose, the trippy lighting fades into lighting that resembles sirens. There are also sirens heard in the back round before fading to black.
Cut from black and we see the father sitting at home watching TV. The phone rings and the father answers. We don't hear who is on the other end but the father says nothing and hangs up the phone. This adds some ambiguity to the ending as it could be a number of options. It could be the father being told by the hospital they have their son after overdosing, it could be someone letting the father know his son is dead or it could even be the dealer, which would imply the father had the dealer lace his sons drugs with something lethal. After hanging up the phone we fade black and that is the end of A Bad Time