Genre: Neo-noir – ‘Double Indemnity’ meets ‘Memento’

In a dark and nameless city, the paths of a tormented man and his seductive former lover intertwine as he hunts his brother’s killer and she frantically attempts to get away with murder.

In a hidden corner of this world lies a treacherous city where the only thing darker than its secrets are the dark souls of those that live there. Amongst this purgatory of sinners the beautiful and sophisticated Maddy Sullivan lives a carefree existence, willfully breaking hearts and selfishly destroying lives. But her seedy past finally catches up with her and she finds that the malevolent tendrils of the city are impossible to escape. To save her own skin, she commits the cold-blooded murder of an innocent man. But as any criminal knows, it’s easy to commit the crime but far harder to get away with it…

Meanwhile, the world-weary Ray Reyes is released from jail. His crime – passionately loving a depraved woman to the point of self-destruction. A woman that he is determined to reunite with. But no more than a day back amongst the vermin of the streets and he is hit with the devastating news that his beloved brother has been murdered. Navigating through the hell of the city Ray embarks upon a desperate search for the killer, but he is forced to not only confront the demons from his past but to also fight for survival amid a host of unsavoury characters; manipulative friends, malicious pimps and sadistic detectives who are hell-bent on crushing the life from him.

Ray and Maddy’s paths of frenzied pursuit and frantic escape become inextricably linked, weaving a labyrinth of deceit and deception and dragging them deeper into a duplicitous web of lies. When their paths finally collide they are forced to submit to the relentless barrage of their unforgiving past as the dark truth finally fights its way to the surface.

A provocative story of lust, betrayal and murder, uniquely structured and resolved with an extraordinary final twist, Real Eyes sizzles with the ruthless acidity of classic noir combined with the lethal punch of a brutally contemporary world.

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