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By Mariano Amézaga

GENRE: Comedy
LOGLINE:

A man offered the possibility to time travel to the past to solve his problems soon gets involved in a crazy killing mission against…himself.

SYNOPSIS:

Luke enjoys a chilling dinner with his wife Susan at home, when suddenly a robber breaks in and steals the valious objects of the house. Luke can´t do anything against it apart from cowardly trying to confront the robber.

One week later, Susan divorces Luke, being the robbery experience her main argument for that. Luke can barely believe it. He gets a call from Prof. Frank, a crazy scientist and friend of his. He tells him to have invented a time travel ball which will allow Luke to travel 24 hours to the past.

Luke unenthusiastically tries the invention out and travels one day back in time. But there´s a big error: There are now 2 Lukes living at the same time, one from the present and another from the future. The time travel Luke has to kill the other to avoid confusions. So Luke finds himself and tries to kill him, but fails and it is the other Luke who succeeds in killing his twin. Shocked, he searches his victim´s pockets and finds the ball, which he accidentally uses to travel another 24 hours back in time.

From this point on, the rhythm of the story is the same, only in different scenarios. Luke haunts his past self to murder him, but at the end the past self always wins and get to the past himself and do the same.

Meanwhile he discovers big secrets of his wife, like that the robbery was a set up from her to keep the house and divorce Luke. And the actual robber was…Susan´s secret boyfriend. Luke finds this out in a very inappropriate way and will think of a plan to get revenge of his wife by taking advantage of his time travel power.

The ending is still open, many different outcomes are possible.

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