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Co- Writer / Producer / Director on a Feature Length Psychological Thriller to be made in 2020
Synopsis
In a dystopian town in the north of England, Yusuf Ramzi is an Arab chemist that lives above his heavily fortified Pharmacy. He awakes in the crumbling shell of his neighbourhood, his life is under constant siege with daily racist vandalism, abuse and a growing isolation from the locals. Upstairs his invalid wife lies bedridden while Yusuf secretly puts pills into her tea without her knowledge. An ambiguous relationship with her nurse Eve adds to the intrigue of the situation. In the basement of his pharmacy, Yusuf experiments with a mysterious plant extract when not handing out mind numbing prescription drugs to a colourful array of people that come to his pharmacy.
On the other side of town, a recently returned war veteran Doug Harding, is refused his regular dosage of painkillers, to which he has become addicted on his last tour of duty. In a fit of uncontrollable rage he beats the doctor in the Veterans hospital and steals his prescription pad. A pressure cooker of emotions start building as he drives through the city looking for his next fix. Armed with a handgun and withdrawal kicking in, slowly but surely the fates of the two men are drawing closer together. After a series of mishaps, Doug eventually finds himself in Yusuf's pharmacy. In desperation, he hides in the shop before closing and finds himself locked in the highly secured building on a bank holiday weekend. The two men finally discover each other.
As the night unfolds Yusuf find himself on the opposite end of Doug's rage. They go into the subterranean basement of the pharmacy where a psychological game of cat and mouse sees the tables turn and Doug tied and bound in a secret room that only Yusuf knows about. There, Yusuf administers a mysterious drug which begins a terrifying transformation in the soldier which Yusuf has to hide from the ever increasing suspicions of the outside world. A roller coaster of events play into our preconceptions of each character's motives only to reveal a profound twist and revelation that nobody could have expected.