SubscribeBased on a short story by Edmundo Paz Soldán
-A dark coming-of-age/psychological thriller
Logline:
Roby, 13 and a budding detective, thinks he knows who committed a brutal murder in his neighborhood. He decides to investigate on his own and gets in way over his head.
Synopsis:
Roby, 13, has spent his summer vacation reading every single detective novel he could lay his hands on, but just as summer is coming to an end, a real mystery develops in plain view from his apartment block window. There’s been a gruesome murder in the edge of his apartment complex and he’s the only one who has a clue to the identity of the killer – Seth, 17, the local bad boy outcast. All Roby has to do now is prove it. Roby has waited all of his short life for this. It’s his first case.
Roby goes undercover and gets close to Seth in hopes of more information, but no sooner has he embarked on his mission that it begins to escape from his control. Seth is a savvy manipulator, and the deeper Roby digs, the more he gets sucked into Seth’s world of crime and depravity. To get any closer and have any chance of solving his case, Roby will have to let himself fall into Seth’s spell. He will have to become the killer’s apprentice.
But Roby goes too far. The investigation is soon a distant memory and he and Seth become inseparable allies: two outcasts rebelling against society. When Roby finally opens his eyes he finds himself in a complete nightmare. But to right the wrongs he’s been a part of he will have to finish the job he started, and do what he once would have considered unthinkable. This will be the summer that Roby will remember his whole life. The one he will wish he could forget.