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VENT
By Joshua David Matthews

GENRE: Thriller, Drama
LOGLINE:

When a high school theatre teacher discovers he can hear his upstairs neighbor's most intimate moments through his air vent, obsession takes over as he records her life and uses it as inspiration for a new play.

SYNOPSIS:

David, a troubled and reclusive divorcé, takes an unhealthy obsession towards his neighbor, Audrey, too far. Using poorly rigged recording equipment, David pries into Audrey's personal life, documenting her every phone conversation, daily routine, and most intimate moments.

Before being fired by his boss, Jim (whose lover is David’s ex-wife), David has one last chance to put on a play at the local high school with his students. With no ideas in mind, David turns to Lissy, his ex-wife and still sexual confidant, for advice, only to hear about her moving in with Jim.

Deciding that the best stories are those you know, David leaves and begins to use his neighbor's life as inspiration for his final play. With each second of audio captured, every frame of video documented, David continues his perverse attachment. All goes well until a late night run-in with Audrey's boyfriend, who turns up dead the next morning.

David is now tasked with helping Detective Ramsey, who discovers one of David’s surveillance cameras while illegally searching Audrey’s apartment. Ramsey uses David, and his stash of audio and video assets, to apprehend who he believes to be the true murderer: Audrey.

Stuck between an obsession he cannot control, a detective with a chip on his shoulder, and a boss who has discovered Lissy and David's continued toxic relationship, David has no choice but to continue his voyeuristic lifestyle until the curtains rise on his new play, with the entirety of his inspired cast sitting in the audience.

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