"He died for a reason..."
Esther (Alice Gold) is devastated by the murder of her chocolatier boyfriend - Nico (Jaron Herren). Reality becomes surrealised and distorted through her grief, as a web of secrets involving dear friends and sinister strangers is slowly revealed. Released for competition into the Edinburgh 48-Hour Film Festival 2019.
Alice Gold
Esther
Hâle Denholm
Elise
Jaron Herren
Nico
William Samson
The Hired Gun
Esther (Alice Gold) is devastated by the murder of her chocolatier boyfriend - Nico (Jaron Herren). Reality becomes surrealised and distorted through her grief, as a web of secrets involving dear friends and sinister strangers is slowly revealed. Released for competition into the Edinburgh 48-Hour Film Festival 2019.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
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Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
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