A deadbeat dad, a vengeful ex, two thieves, a junkie, and two lovers-on-the-run all hit the road only to be trapped in a traffic jam so endless and absurd, it forces them to confront the very things they were running from.

SYNOPSIS:

HARRY just got fired on a Friday. Instead of telling his wife and two kids like a responsible adult, he walks out the front door and decides never to come back, no note, no plan, just a deeply repressed scream in a cheap suit.

DEMI just found out her boyfriend ran off with her best friend. Heartbroken? No. Furious. She steals her father’s antique pistol with grand plans of murder and escape, only to discover two key flaws: the gun isn’t loaded, and she doesn’t know how to use it anyway.

STUART and REBECCA, Demi’s now ex and ex-bestie, hit the road with nothing but a mixtape, a box of Cheezels, and the toxic belief that “everything happens for a reason.

LUKE and RYAN have just finished building their dream hot rod. It gleams, it growls, it goes fast, and it’s made entirely from stolen parts off Luke’s brother’s car. They’re speeding off before anyone can connect the dots.

And CAM? Cam’s a junkie who lifted a bag of drugs from the local dealer, hoping to start over somewhere new. His definition of “new” is vague. His withdrawal timeline is not.

But none of them get very far.

They all hit a traffic jam so bizarrely long, so infuriatingly slow, and so existentially pointless that it might as well be a metaphor. Or purgatory. Or just the 405 Freeway on a long weekend.

As the hours turn to days and tempers boil, these seven strangers are forced to sit with their lies, regrets, and terrible life choices. Escape becomes less about getting through the traffic and more about facing the mess they brought with them.

NO EXIT is the story of seven runaway lives, one endless blockage, and the terrible, hilarious realisation that sometimes the road doesn’t lead anywhere.

Screenplay in development