Detailed Synopsis

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This is a story of a diseased relationship between 32-year old Chris Leeds, a former Marine working as a carpenter and wrestling with PTSD-born psychosis and guilt-fueled masochism, and 22-year old Zemar, an orphaned Afghan refugee tending his aunt and uncle’s rug shop while reconciling his sadistic tendencies toward white Americans. Chris willingly submits to Zemar’s escalating abuse as he believes it is the only way he can ever purge his self-loathe caused by his accidental killing of Afghan civilians in Kabul seven years earlier and his increasingly racist viewpoints. Zemar joyfully partakes in the torture as it satisfies his need for vengeance and sates his hunger for punishment of arrogant, sovereign Caucasians, even if Chris may not be the soldier responsible for his parents’ slaughter. Thematically, the film explores the challenges and failures of multiculturalism, the effects of guilt, shame, self-loath, and the urgency of letting go of whatever is eating you before it devours you completely. How we purge; the gruesome places to which we sometimes need to go for redemption and acceptance. Of ourselves.