SYNOPSIS:

35 Days Down is a full-length feature drama-thriller following a fraud insurance investigator, Booker Wilcox, who uncovers a deep-sea murder cover-up and learns to care for someone besides himself. The eight-year-old daughter of the victim captures his uncaring heart and unwittingly motivates him to exact revenge upon her father’s killer. 35 Days Down contains one underwater scene and several other (more common) locations, no other special effects and can be produced easily on a low to moderate budget. Shortly after his wife moves out and files a trial separation because her husband cannot love another person besides himself, Booker is assigned to the “Walton Peachy” appeal. A saturation diver, Peachy had been living in three connected, pressurized, hyperbolic chambers with his diving partner, Alec Rawls, for 35 days off of the New Orleans coast. In the final days of the mission, Peachy overdosed on cocaine and died in his partner’s arm from a myocardial infarction (heart attack). After losing the insurance payout because of illegal drug use, Peachy’s widow – Allison – fights the decision so she can afford the expensive cystic fibrosis treatment for her eight-year old daughter, Amanda. Although Allison despises Booker, Amanda adores him and asks for his help to clear her father’s name. While investigating the case, Booker discovers he cares not only for Amanda, but for his wife, as well. He also learns that Rawls murdered Peachy over a crate of cocaine they found on the ocean floor during one of Peachy’s dives. Normally a conscientious, rule-bound man, Booker’s newly found ability to love leads him to perform a gruesome act of vigilante justice against Rawls. With both drama and touching moments, 35 Days Down is a thriller that explores a man’s personal passion of justice and his development of the ability to love. This 100 page story builds around the main character as he becomes a better – and worse – person in order to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. It explores the best and worst in all of us, all from the point of view of a strong central character engulfed in emotionally charged circumstances.