SEVEN SHORT STORIES BY HAROUT GHUKASSIAN - LOGLINES

Unanimous Killers

When desperate people come to the roof of the tallest building in the city for a suicide, they meet a man who looks even more desperate and broken then they are. Every time the stranger tells his tragic story each of them goes and publicly kills a “villain” from the stranger’s story. Then they wait for the police to come and shoot them to death on the spot, because they don’t have anything to lose anymore. The police don’t find any motives for their killings, but soon the scheme of the “unanimous killers” gets exposed.

 

Perfect Robbery

Harry, a bank employee, organizes a perfect robbery of ensured money during which no one gets hurt, robbers entertain the people in hostage and the stolen money get disappeared without leaving the bank. Robbers are freed because of no prove for the fact of robbery and Harry start planning his new life with a hell of a lot of money.

 

Dog Revolution

While protests escalate in a South American country, we witness the connections between ruling party and local mafia, which makes a promise to help suppress the opposition protest. But when the daughter of one of the mob leaders gets assaulted by the police, he gets out of the game and opposition wins. The new Prime Minister, aware of the fact, calls him in and kills, so that their connection doesn’t lay a shadow on his new career. The unchanging game of politics.

 

Chameleon

A therapist works with a patient who has a multiple personality disorder. While he wants to talk to the first personality of his patient Jake, the latter is attacking him with questions about his own life. When the second personality, Michael urges in, he starts telling about Jake’s traumatic childhood and how he controlled the whole situation and put the house with Jake’s father inside on fire. But when Michael started drawing parallels between Jake and Chameleon a serial killer and identifying them as the same person, the doctor got angry and revealed that he was that Chameleon.

Secret

Journalist John Liberski wants to interview a successful banker Alex Freedom to find out his secret of success. Freedom says he would open it up in case John shares a dark secret of his. Only after that Mr. Freedom tells him the key to success for his business. His clients are famous and rich people who don’t want to go through the long-lasting process of a background check so they “lend” their secrets to Mr. Freedom in return of loans. Unless they pay back the loans on time, the banker can publicize their secrets. The secrets are most valuable, so clients are always in time with their pay backs. Now, Mr. Freedom decided its time for the journalist to publish the secrets of his clients, to show the public the real face of the famous and rich. Once the article is out it goes viral, but nobody can find Mr. Freedom. He is on his way to a journey to Mars.

 

Phenomenon

Jason Brooks, a successful sportsman, the best quarterback of NCAA, lost everything in a second. The terrible car crash took his mother’s life and left him out from sports forever because of numerous injuries. But instead he gained an ability to predict various incidents. He managed to prevent a terroristic act of exploding a train having overheard some random and meaningless words in conversations at a bar. Putting them together he solved the riddle and cooperating with the police prevented the train from exploding. After investigating the case and making sure that Jason really has this gift of predicting the police starts a collaboration with him.

 

Murder in Paradise

Emily Blunt, a girl of unreal beauty, lived in a small town called “Paradise” by its folks. Teenagers Woody, Daniel, Michael and Bruce were close friends all in love with Emily. On the very day Emily said she would reveal which one of them she loves, the young girl was found assaulted, tortured and injured to death. Pastor Patrick who was suspected to be guilty of killing Emily was never found. 20 years later when boys meet again to say their last good bye to Bruce who had passed away, Woody confessed that he had found the pastor and killed him. Soon Michael came with a letter Bruce’s mother had given to him. It was a confession written by Bruce that he killed Emily when he learned that she had chosen Woody.