Genre

Thriller / Tragedy

Estimated Budget

$150,000

Type

Feature Length Film

Estimated Run Time

90 minutes

This is a story about a schizophrenic young man, who witnesses the murder of the woman he loves and when no one believes him, he sets out to prove her death and get revenge on his own.

Darker Than Love

Synopsis

Noah Chambers is in love with a beautiful woman from afar. To him she’s the only reason for being, so he watches her every day. Levia is the only constant in his life, which has been filled with the unknown and uncertainty. After all, he’s schizophrenic.

He knows Levia is real because of the overwhelming emotions he feels when he sees her. The angst he feels when he’s unable to talk to her the way other people do. The way they have freedom to look at her up close and interact with her. To know what she smells like. Her small voice inflections. What she feels like.

However, one night as he’s watching Levia through a telescope from his house, he can’t believe his eyes. He witnesses her being drowned in her own bathtub. Noah calls the police immediately, but when they arrive there’s nobody in the house, nor is there any evidence of a struggle.

Taking matters into his own hands, Noah breaks into her house to find out if it really happened. Having to decipher between what’s real and what’s not has caused Noah to create an extremely keen attention to detail. He discovers a series of clues that prove Levia had someone else over at her house as well as the person attacking her.

Holding onto hope of her still being alive, Noah rushes to the police station to tell them what they’ve missed. Chief Officer Grimsky knows about Noah’s condition and a bit of his pained family history which causes Grimsky to be weary of Noah’s claims. Officer Grimsky tells Noah they already checked the house and found nothing. Adding, that their hands are tied anyways because a missing person’s report can only be filed 48 hours after the person goes missing.

Knowing the first 48 hours are the most vital, Noah has no intention of sitting idle until then. Since he’s familiar with her life and daily habits, he starts to investigate her job, friends, and acquaintances, which leads him on a journey of finally getting to know her and remembering what he’s lost in his own life.

One person in particular draws Noah’s suspicion. Cesar Darwin, Levia’s ex-boyfriend, who after leaving her to join the army became the beloved, charismatic priest of the town church.

Noah decides to investigate further into Cesars’ life, and when he starts finding clues, Cesar quickly becomes the prime suspect. Although to Noah it seem obvious that Cesar is indeed guilty, to Grimsky the evidence just looks unsubstantial.

As Noah is pushed to the edge of his sanity in a battle of life and death with Cesar, and Grimsky caught in the middle of it all, the lines between faith and individualism, between physical and psychological, between the sane and insane are blurred until the collision of all their paths.