Logline:
When a small independent film wins a prestigious award, it threatens the empire of the drug boss who financed it.
Synopsis:
Seated in an auditorium packed with VIPs, awaiting the announcement for winner of the festival’s best picture, the unnamed Narrator tells his unlikely story of how he became a nominee. It began eight years ago when he re-connected with Yoshi, a Japanese film student turned drug dealer. In fact, Yoshi is the top manager of an exclusive Manhattan marijuana delivery service.
As it turns out, Yoshi needs a writer to “clean up” the script he had “put together” about life in the service. For “research”, he even hires the Narrator as a runner. But when the latter quits after being robbed, he’s surprised when Yoshi takes a ‘sabbatical’ and recruits him to shoot his lousy script. Worse, the lead actress, Monica, becomes Yoshi’s “girlfriend”, controlling the film, and infiltrating the service.
When theft and dwindling sales pull Yoshi back into the business he helped start, the Narrator defies his benefactor by continuing the film. Seeing her chance for stardom, Monica gets him the “green light”; but she must be the movie’s kingpin. What the Narrator does next jeopardizes not only Yoshi’s business, but his own life and Monica’s.
Facing the roaring crowd, award in hand, the Narrator can only consider the casualties he’s cost; and the lives he’s transformed.