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THE DAY I WALKED AWAY

THE DAY I WALKED AWAY
By Christopher Harmon

GENRE: Romance, Comedy
LOGLINE:

One day, everything goes wrong for a good-hearted ghetto gangsta as his life becomes comically unglued,  After going through hell, his lady love brings out an epiphany and he then risks his life to heal the community... that he once victimized.

Genre – Gangsta Rom-Com

SYNOPSIS:

On top of his game, showing no-shame, TODDOW (Todd Howard) has it all. His own crib to get whack, fine honeys to Mack and the ghetto version of a 'drive-thru pharmacy' that pumps out the Benjamins by the stack. Life couldn't be sweeter. It is a life he always dreamed about, but the downside of this career choice starts to make him think about the future.

Toddow hooks up with African stripper, MOZAMBIQUE who is a bit of gangsta herself. She sees a talented man who is wasting his precious time in a dangerous gig that often ends in a hail of bullets or handcuffs. Toddow listens, feels conflicted about it, but feels he is in it too deep to just stop.

From then on, his day crumbles into a streak of comic misadventures and complications highlighted with: drug deals gone wrong, his crew stealing money , mom cursing him out for wasting his life,, honeys abandoning him for other pimps, police harassment from a psycho cop with an old grudge, running for his life from an angry boyfriend and finding himself face to face with a hidden cell of Al Queda who consider killing him so their lair is not revealed. .

Confronted with these violent Jihadists , they mock him then let him go because no one would believe a low-life, leech who sells poison and exploits women. Then it hits him. The world, even theses psycho-killers … think he’s a joke. A worthless parasite. Is he? Is it true? Inner-turmoil consumes him. If he survives, he will quit.

Safely at home, he hugs Mozambique tight and announces his plan of quitting to his crew, but – a last minute complication. The bad cop arrives and is ready to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit. Just before the cuffs go on and his future is doomed, he tells the cops about terrorists. They don’t believe him, who would? The cops drive by the house on the way to the lock-up.

When the squad car stops, they come under fire. The bad cop freezes up and Toddow must use his experience as a street soldier to neutralize the Jihadists before they unleashed a major attack. BOOM-BOOM. Gunfight. Toddow wins.

Now a hero, he opens a cannabis dispensary and gives legit jobs to the crew that remained faithful, marries Mozambique and starts to heal the city that he once preyed upon.

THE DAY I WALKED AWAY

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