A driven ‘control freak’ finds himself lost in a strange town; involved in a bank robbery; in love with the key witness; his life threatened by a cross dressing contract killer and totally, totally out of control.

SYNOPSIS:

In a town suburb Charlie is trying to locate the hotel hosting a sales conference he’s due to speak at, but his SNS has got him lost. Across town four criminals are parked outside a bank they are about to rob; three of them armed and masked. They enter the bank. The driver remains. Moments later a young scatterbrain girl, returning home from lunch, inadvertently turns into the alley beside the bank. Moments later the three robbers exit as the bank alarms go off. The third drops his stash. The driver takes off his mask to assist just as the young girl retraces her steps out of the alley. She catches sight of the driver’s face and flees. They pursue her.

Meanwhile Charlie has finally found his way toward town and is approaching a junction. The SNS tells him to turn right but then contradicts itself! Dutifully Charlie swings the wheel back the other way only to impact with the fleeing girl.

During the next few hours Charlie is arrested; interrogated by two stupid and comically malevolent detectives; gets released but misses the conference; becomes the butt of a joke by his less successful colleagues and gets lost in the city, finally ending up in the hospital where the girl, Adeona, is being cared for and under protective custody for the one night by the same two policemen who interrogated him. Teasing him they allow him access to see her. Although she has lost her voice through shock, she communicates by writing and Charlie begins to fall in love with her.

Outside the hospital the villains send in a contract killer disguised as a nurse who infiltrates the ward and drugs the two detectives. Charlie intercepts him as he is about to kill Adeona but is shot in the arm. Desperate to move her before another attempt is made they attempt to negotiate their way to a back stairwell but end up in a toilet and are confronted by the gang leader. They are saved by the timely intervention of a good doctor but Charlie is wounded again, this time in the other arm.

Outside the rest of the gang are captured leaving the car park in the wrong direction, hitting an incoming ambulance. Charlie spurns Adeona as bad luck.

Weeks later still recovering Charlie’s boss gives him use of his cottage in the Devon countryside for recuperation. At a service station he meets the two detectives now demoted to motorway/highway patrol. They tell him how Adeona had asked for him after the events at the hospital. Charlie remains disinterested.

Two hours later, however, and with the assistance of yet another contradictory SNS, he has another fateful meeting in the middle of nowhere.

A TURN OF THE WHEEL