Its the not-to-distant, yet indefinable future. Looming corrugated metal warehouses, and billowing smoke stacks are the backdrop that are sonically infiltrated by a constant low industrial drone. JAKE VINCENZO and his partner realize theyre onto something big and dangerous when they end up in Blakes illegal booze can and gun factory. Its dank…dark, and the resonant hum of the automated machinery adds artificial life to a stark but violent world. Tensions are high, and everyones strung like a two-dollar fiddle. When a man steps out of the shadows, our hero Jake shoots first, only to find out that he hasnt shot the notorious Blake but Blakes twin brother, a priest. Hells fury is unleashed upon them. Five henchmen shower the warehouse with bullets. A dramatic gunfight leaves all five dead and Jakes partner hit. Hit bad. Racked with guilt about the priest and fearful of Blakes revenge, Jake switches guns with his dying partner and hopes Blake will never know it was him. But someones watching it all. And the guilt of framing his partner will be the real killer.
The future is here and it is grim. Tonight Blake’s put the word out. This is Blake’s city, and if the ‘word’ goes out, you keep your head down. The enigmatic ALEXIA VANDERCROFT sits in Rick’s Bar unfazed by the fact that the streets are a time bomb ready to go off. Also ignoring the curfew, Jake Vincenzo strolls in after months of being on the lamb. These two have a lot in common; wry banter, close held secrets and furtive glances at each other.??Gunfire rings out in the streets. Through the door plows two thugs, Tom and Tony, a racy dame named Nancy, and Billy, a reedy little gangster whos already been shot and is bleeding. Alex and Jake end up caught in a crossfire protecting this bunch of cagey misfits who are as mysterious as our two heroes.
As the night wears on and the dramatic shoot-out with the unseen assailants continues, Jake and Alex begin to fall for each other.Andthey begin to suspect each other. The mystery is, who is after who and why? Seems no ones who they say they are and everyones got a secret.
