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KING OF THE JEWS
By Elimihe Osezuah

GENRE: Action, Thriller
LOGLINE: ALERO, 28, a corporate lawyer returns home from a routine walk-out in her estate to find her fiance, OSITA, 35 missing, and three hours later she sees his image on national TV alleged to have murdered a celebrity client of his.

SYNOPSIS:

OSITA, 35, a successful enterpreneur always knew his past would come knocking some day, and flatters himself to think that he has been prepared all along. But when it finally comes he is forced to respect these people (the RED BOW and the PINK PANTS, enemies he made in his university days) for their creativity. They whisk him out of his bedroom when he is barely awake, knock him out and place him in a scene of murder and make it look like he had engaged in a fight of passion with the socialite client before he prevailed over her. When the alerted police meet him so, the evidence is overwhelming though circumstantial. Thank Goodness his Fiancee Alero does not believe the police and the media who have already taken the story on its face value. She has decided to investigate it on her own, risking her life in the process to bring salient facts in the matter to the police, who through their own flawless investigations find that she(Alero) has always been a Pink Pant and worked with the Pants' Vixen, Vivienne to undermine Osita all along. Alero will, despite the accusation, struggle desperately to free Osita from their jaws though she cannot deny the police findings on her. Soon Alero, who has been able to rally the support of Osita's protegees to unravel some mysteries in the case, is arrested with her boys for attempted murder and assault occasioning grievous bodily harms on agents she believes to be Vivienne's. At the moment it seems as if the police has come to see that Osita is innocent, the big man of the RED BOW and the Pink Pants decides an attack on the police station to sniff the life out of Osita is the only option left for the 15 year old vendetta. On the night of the purported operation, some 'armed robbers' are hurled into Osita's cell preparatory for ex-judicial executions the next morning. However when the RED BOWS unleash their jackals on the station, the 'armed robbers' turn out to be shields planted by Osita's University days godfather who all along has been aware of the development. Though not a cult boy, Osita had enjoyed the blessing of Big Daddy, leader of a respectable campus cult, to become President of the Students Union at a time the campus was held in the tight grips of the RED BOWS and the PINK PANTS. The Red Bows had presented Vivienne, a campus beauty queen and leader of the PINK PANTS a purely female confraternity, to run for the presidency, because she was a sure candidate acceptable to the students and the authorities. However they did not bank for the emergency of a jew boy(a contemptible name for any student who had no cult affiliation) named Osita who was extremely popular with both students and campus authorities. By reason of some special favours done to Big Daddy for editing the latter's campus magazine for free for two sessions, he blessed his candidacy. When the life of Osita was hunted by other cult members, Big Daddy called the Bows and the Pants to order. The Pants and the Bows agreed to step down for Osita on conditions he shared his government with them. Osita accepted the conditions and sealed them with a blood ritual, but upon being sworn in as President, he flushed the University of cultism and sent everyone of them into hiding. Today, fifteen years later, they are back for their revenge, but unknown to Osita, Big Daddy has always sorrounded him with 'soldiers' masquerading as his staff and protegees. To them he is an exceptional Jew, the very King of them all.

KING OF THE JEWS

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