LOGLINE
A broke Atlanta couple take over a murdered Black hardware owner’s storefront to launch a vintage shop, then uncover a gentrification scheme linking their benefactor to the killing — and turn their business into a public trap before the town erases them too.
The dream storefront is also the crime scene. An Atlanta social thriller where building the business, exposing the scheme and becoming its next target are the same action.
THE MOVIE
Maya Reyes and Sean Williams are broke Atlanta creatives trying to build a vintage shop. Developer Hank Matthews offers them the former storefront of Mr. Boone, an elderly Black hardware-store owner whose murder has become background noise inside the town’s redevelopment story.
Records, vandalism, selective enforcement and neighborhood memory reveal that Boone’s death may belong to the same machinery that made the storefront available. Maya and Sean’s business becomes evidence and bait. They may expose the scheme and still lose the beautiful storefront. What they rebuild is smaller, harder and actually theirs.
WHO IT FOLLOWS
A creative entrepreneur quick enough to see that her opportunity is somebody else’s crime scene.
Her partner in the store, the investigation and the cost of both.
A developer whose generosity depends on nobody reading the paperwork closely.
A pressure point inside the machinery surrounding the block.
The murdered owner whose absence has been converted into real estate.
Neighborhood memory refusing the official version.
Leave an email. the script and the pitch packet open immediately.
I keep a record of who opens the files so I know who has read what. Your address is never sold, listed, or shared.
Cities, schemes, and people who stop asking for help somewhere around the midpoint.
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During a pandemic-era sweep of Skid Row, a disgraced doctor turns the block into a controlled storm to confront the brother who stole his clinic, but his sheltered daughter’s bond with an EMT — and the community he claims to protect — forces him to choose revenge or release.
OPEN ITThe same trap-building, with a dog and a maintenance man instead of a storefront.
After a gentle pit bull bred for fighting refuses to kill and is discarded, he bonds with a withdrawn maintenance man; when a dogfighting network targets their makeshift refuge, both must decide whether survival can become a home.
OPEN ITA mystery that gets worse the longer somebody keeps the lie standing.
Still carrying guilt over ignoring his suicidal brother’s final calls, a young man hits and abandons another desperate stranger on a rain-soaked road; ten months later, her ghost begins calling, forcing him to choose between the life he rebuilt and the truth buried in the woods.
OPEN IT