'Descent'

By Peter Devonald

LOGLINE
Healy has it all - the wife, the two year old child, the falling down apartment, the sleazy world of Private detection, the broken promises, dreams, memories, the lot. But the past is never passed, and his world's about to be turned upside down.

SYNOPSIS
Slowly being consumed by strange, ambiguous and frightening dreams that seep into reality - HEALY rescues a Girl from an on rushing car. When he looks up, dazed and bruised, the Girl and all the witnesses have gone.

When he's paid by JACKSON KLISH, an old associate, to find SUNNY, their long lost love, you just know his life's going to hell. At first Healy declines Jackson's offer but his wife, STELLA, puts pressure on him to comply. The money on offer means he has no choice. He enters the dark, dank world of Glasgow prostitute and pornographic life. The streets are drenched in rain and the dark corners drip with sweat.
The dark grimness of the present is counter-pointed both with the opulence Jackson lives in, and the beauty of Healy's memories of Sunny. She was everything to him - beauty, intelligence, wisdom. Healy quickly loses his grip on reality as he slips further and further into the sewage life of Glasgow. He quickly finds pornographic images of Sunny and prints one out; but when he returns to find more evidence, all the images have been destroyed.

Healy is helped/ hindered by WILLEM CAMARERO, a strange moral force in the centre of the scum. But Willem's life is hardly blameless - he's the owner of the porn shop and creator of a lot of the filth. Willem leads Healy into the basement where a savage porn tape of Sunny is found. Healy becomes obsessed with the video and the past, not least as it becomes obvious that Sunny has been killed, alone, battered and destroyed.

With Sunny gone, Healy attempts to redeem EMELY NOVAK, a 16 year old child caught up in prostitution, drugs and destitution. TRENTON DETOMA both watches Healy and is the pimp to Emely. As the facts about Sunny's death grow, Healy's past weighs heavily on the present. The trail of Sunny leads directly back to Jackson.

Healy goes to Jackson to bring the guilty to justice, but he finds something shocking in the opulent mansion. Healy has one last chance of salvation... But when Emely is brutally killed, Healy has to choose between revenge and redemption.

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