A girl is getting high on weed in a bathtub trying to forget something awful she was part of. We see fragments of her thoughts about what has happened, first it is a man smiling and laughing at a table, than a hand passing a business card. Soon the drug takes over, and under its effect the visions gradually start to become more clear and intense, although still being very short, there are features of violence, aggression. Some include herself, some reveal people in pain and needing help. After one of especially shocking visions she wakes up and sits up in the bath, tortured by her conscience. She gets out of the water and puts on a towel, she is high, the light seems brighter, she can't see clearly. As she walks out of the bathroom she sees their photo with her younger sister. Than she sees a quite big bag of marijuana lying near the glass balcony door, she slowly walks to it. Standing by it she looks inside a bedroom's open door, another vision of her having sex on this bed (with Tony). She is in guilt and despair, she opens the window to go on the balcony, tilting as she walks. She stands leaning close to the barrier, enjoying fresh air, and falls over its edge.
Jemma's younger sister Phoebe died after taking fake cocaine. To overcome the depression Jemma tried to smoke cannabis and soon got hooked. The events in the movie take place 2 years later, Jemma seemed to recover but her habbit for the drug stayed. She doesn't see it as a significant negative, since she does it only once a week without disturbing others. She works in Heathrow airport (something related to immigration and the boarder control). Her ex boyfriend and close friend Tony sells weed and deals to her with big discounts. One day he asks her for help; he wants to get a few of his friends from Vietnam and Eastern Europe to enter UK and work with him, but is scared of suspicion arising in the British airports. He wants her to be on duty at the time of their arrival and let them through with minimal inspection. Jemma agreed to do it for a free cannabis supply. In reality, she assessed human trafficking of these people, for slavery on the plantations. She soon comes to Tony for her first free package and shows interest in looking at the process of growing. Tony lets her in. She witnesses appalling conditions the new workers live in and the violence they experience, Jemma wants to help, but the next day is threatened by Tony that she also will be reveled to the police and that her family will be in danger. One time she comes back to get her free dosage she sees a big bag as the door is opened and recognizes the dead face of one of the trafficked. Under shock she comes back to her flat - the opening takes place.
Idea 2
We see high apartment buildings of London. Transition inside one of them, a man meditates in front of an open balcony. He is well built, he sits upright and with knees bent and under his body, smoke from the incense comes from the corners of the room. He can't fully concentrate on the practice because of disturbing thoughts about the past and the present, the visions gradually become longer and more clear, revealing violence which he saw and inflicted. The doorbell rings and he opens his eyes. He opens the door, there are three guys: "Roy wants to see you", he notices guns in the internal pockets of their jackets
David, a martial arts expert (mid 20s) comes back from Asia to London to be a teacher. Because of financial problems David struggles to make a living only by coaching. He starts to work as a bodyguard for the criminal figures. He hates it realizing that he goes against everything he learned and his life principles, but the conditions with money force him to continue. Dave's skills of combat and understanding of human mind quickly make him popular in this world; he is gradually given more dangerous and brutal tasks. He notices some of their consequences in his daily life, but closes his eyes on them due to quick recovery of his own life. One of them ends up in murder of his best family friend's daughter (she was a witness). He soon finds out and understands his responsibility. Being tortured by conscience he suggests to stop, but finds himself caught up. His boss threatens to reveal evidence of David's relations to all the crimes (including the murder) if Dave leaves. David goes back to his apartment and meditates to relief the stress and make the right decision. However, he has continuous visions of the murder of his friend's daughter and other suffering he inflicted. Meditation is disrupted by his boss's men, Dave refuses to follow them regardless of the earlier threat to show his guilt. They then suggest to force him to go by threatening with weapons and attempting to paralyze with a taser, Dave resists and neutralizes all three men, giving them away to the police afterwards. He then asks for help his other friend, a school friend who became a lawyer. The rest of the story line shows how they convict the related criminals with the use of David's knowledge and evidence on them,
Idea 3
Canterbury Cathedral on the sunset, we notice a man standing on its rooftop. He is smoking and watching the colour changes of the horizon. After a while he puts out his cigarette, turns around and walks to the edge. He looks down to the ground and takes out a photograph of a young girl smiling. Something makes him very upset, more and more the longer he looks at it. In pain he folds it, puts it in the inside pocket of his jacket and climbs to stand on the barrier. It is now clear he is about to jump. In the moment of hesitation the cathedral's bells start ringing. The sound is calming, he is moved by it and looks up on the darkening sky above. He feels relief as the clouds pass and the stars begin to appear. His thoughts are changing. He brings his gaze down to view of the town and growing shadows. Suddenly, he notices a man running at speed across the memorial court. He looks closely and notices that the person's shoulder is bleeding. A flash and a gunshot come from the passage to the court, the man falls and bleeds on the stone floor, he is still. The earlier suicider is shocked, he keeps looking. Another man appears from the passage, his face is covered, a gun in the falling hand. He approached the body and looks around as he stands over it. The man on the rooftop stumbles absorbed by the event, he nearly falls down and lets out a short cry. The man on the court notices him. Realising the situation, our character jumps back to the rooftop and hides behind the barrier. Terrified he looks over it, the murderer is approaching the cathedral gate. The witness runs back to the door, but it can only be open from the inside. He tries the hatch on the floor, but is locked too. His only chance is to climb down the wall and hide in one of the bell towers. As he stands on the barrier, overcoming the fear of height, a running noise comes from behind to the stair door.
David, 24, has been in 5 years long relationship. On the day he suggests to make a proposal he finds out that his fiance had sex with another guy. She has been doing for ages, bored of him to death by now. Believing that they were in love, David doesn't see a better way out but kill himself. He goes up to the roof of their city's cathedral, but becomes a witness of homicide, just after he changed his mind. The rest of the storyline is about him trying to escape the killer, who was hired for the job, and save his ex whose photo was left in the jacket's pocket he took off before climbing to the bell tower.
Idea 4
Night forest, the moon and stars are shinning brightly. The camera goes through dense trees and bushes, showing the mud and water dripping down branches. It keeps moving forward when suddenly a pile of leaves starts to shuffle and is pushed down revealing a hole in a side of rise in the ground. A man is hiding in there. He is wet, dirty and cold, his breath condenses into vapour with each exhale. After cleaning his head and hands from soil and rubbing them together to give the fingers more flexibility, he reaches for a two barreled shotgun lying further in the hole. He checks the barrels and bends it as if preparing to load. There is a sound of an approaching car, the man becomes still and then starts to move leaves back to cover the hole. Two lights slowly move on the road behind the ground rise, lighting the area so it can be seen, the trees are casting it's shadows, the hiding man is not moving. After the car passes he takes out two rounds, puts them inside the barrels and closes the gun.
Camera is inside the car filming the brightly lit road ahead, the vehicle is moving slowly staying to the right side of the road, close to the trees. There are three men inside, all armed. Camera goes back to filming through the front glass, suddenly two gunshots come from the darkness on the left; lethally injuring the driver. After he dies, the other two come out of the car, holding their guns ready and using the doors and sides for a cover. Camera is fixed behind the one on the left side from of the car, moving as he gets out a powerful flashlight and looks around. When he turns left the guy from the forest is seen in the light, a moment later both barrels are offloaded into the gangster, his body hits the car and slides down in blood and gore. The second thug turns to the sound and shoots a long burst in the direction of his enemy's movement. The frame cuts to the man in the forest, running to the side as bullets whistle and hit the trees near him. He finds cover behind a bump and wants to reload; no more ammunition is left. The gangster lost him out of sight and looks around in fear. He notices a bump in the red back lights of the car and moves towards it aiming. As he is about to look over its top the shotgun's handle hits him on the head. The main character beats him with it to death, then drops the gun and after a short rest searches the body. He finds a phone and dials walking to the car. A man picks up: "Hello?", the character feels relief and takes deep breaths: "Hello? (2nd time)", "Henry.... Get me out of here"
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