The only survivor of a horrifying contest tells his story that no one believes.  (Screenplay written as a 6-part TV series)

SYNOPSIS:

(Screenplay written as a 6-part TV series)

Mainly set on the high plains of Wyoming/Colorado, ten desperate, down-on-their luck writers are enticed to a writing competition with a prize of $100,000 and a book deal. They are mostly city folks, picked up in New York and Chicago and told they are to be flown to Aspen, Colorado for the competition.

When their plane has trouble, they are deceitfully left at a ghost town on the Wyoming/Colorado high plains prairie with a semi-working brothel-hotel and supplies enough for 60 days, if they are frugal. With no communications or transportation, they find a list of rules they must obey; their lives depending on it. Strong personalities and moral choices they have to make to survive, clash as one-by-one they are murdered or die until the final contestant is left, the winner, who then must make more life and death decisions. When he decides to go to authorities, against his self-interest, to report “THE CONTEST” and the death of his friends, no evidence of “THE CONTEST” can be found and he is ultimately determined to be delusional with the question of whether “The Contest” ever actually took place. Did “THE CONTEST” actually occur, or was it a figment of his delusions?