The Passing concerns itself with two strangers, played by James Plaster and Welton Benjamin Johnson. By chance, Plaster and Johnson briefly meet. By indirection, this meeting proves disastrous to them both. Though it frequently descends into horror for horror's sake, The Passing has the hypnotic effect of a traffic accident: you swear you're not going to look any more, but you do. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi