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United in Pain

Synopsis: 

“United in Pain”

Genre: Family thriller drama

Logline:

A transphobic father confronts his biggest fears when his deathly ill wife’s only hope for survival turns out to be him working the streets as a transvestite sex worker.

Synopsis:

CY, a former MMA fighter, faces bankruptcy after he paid for his wife’s, ALICE, ALS treatment while his son, MICHAEL, dresses as a transvestite to earn money. Cy’s bank wants their loan back, and Cy turns for help to his ex-manager, BETH, who carries an endless hatred against Cy’s daughter NELL.

Cy agrees to work for Beth and so repay his bank debt when he collides with VAN, who unintendedly hurts Cy’s back that Cy broke in his final match. Alice begs Cy to allow Nell to return home after malnutrition sent Nell to a hospital, and Michael, dressed as Michelle, ends up in a hospital, beaten up by a customer, which drives Cy back to his drinking habits. Cy finds out Beth’s real plans, which sends him into a rampage against Beth, who almost takes him out and offers Cy a solution, a match between Nell and Van. Cy gets his final blow when Alice ends in a hospital caused by the return of her ALS.

Cy discovers that Michel worked as a transvestite prostitute and turns self into a transvestite, working the streets as a sex worker, he saves Alice and confronts Beth’s brutality that almost kills him. Cy reunites with his children and his wife, marked by her illness, but still on his side.

Written by: Zvonko Leskovar, ekvivalenca@gmail.com
zvolesk@gmail.comzvonko_les@aol.com

 

Runtime: 
01:31:00
Information for the Audience: 

Writer: Zvonko Leskovar

Directed by: Lance Kawas
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Directed by: 
Lance Kawas
Writing credits: 
Zvonko Leskovar
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