“After the murder of his secret lover, a closeted small-town lawyer struggling with addiction is forced to abandon the comforts of his old life to seek revenge.”

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After the murder of his secret lover, a closeted small-town lawyer is forced to abandon the comforts of his old life to seek revenge while grappling with addiction.”

Theme(s): Identity, masculinity, revenge, forgiveness, inequality, sexuality

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“The saddest part of revenge is that before you even realize, it turns you into one of them. You begin thinking like them, like a bad and scheming person. You lose a little bit of you.”

“Revenge then consumes a person and alters him in irreversible ways; it poisons and besmirches the person’s soul.”