The setup
A gambling-addict taxi driver’s lifelong wish is fulfilled when an on-the-run bank robber dumps his loot on him and conveniently dies.
But a fool always wishes for a thousand more when granted three wishes — and what follows is a painfully excruciating yet comical tale of stubbornness meeting fate.
- Genre
- Dark comedy / Thriller / Slow-burn / Crime
- Runtime
- 90 mins
- Locations
- Scotland, Birmingham
- Status
- In development
One has free will, and free will is the greatest virtue of all. It shall be cherished, protected and, most of all, exploited. This is what drives Paul: a directionless, self-pitying, virtue-signalling, taxi-driving gambling addict. The day his wife Kat finally kicks him out, he meets Sahej, a tragically adrift bank robber who coerces Paul into driving him out of the city and looking after the loot until the heat dies down.
On the other side of town the Ruffian, a gangster past his prime, awaits a very special delivery: laundered money in the form of a specially rigged lottery ticket. When he learns it is in the hands of a guy who “bought every last ticket”, he dispatches his henchmen to close in on the unlikely duo.
