A psychotropic tale of drugs, death & delusion

Synopsis: Ling becomes the hottest new drug on the streets. The source of the drug is a mutated strain of the more common ling fish, the Lingling. It is uncertain if this evolution was a natural process or deliberately engineered. The fish can only be found at a now abandoned Soviet marine research station. As the stocks left by the Russians begin to run dry Denis, an ex diver is recruited by the drug traffickers to search the depths for the fish. The Ling's only food source is the psychic emanations of dead mammals, which is maybe why it is only found in the holds of shipwrecks. Here it gathers in motionless shoals and, hanging trancelike, they triangulate the emanations between them. As Denis commences his underwater search for the fish he discovers he is not the first to try, and any living creature that comes near them is subject to intense hallucinations. This is extremely hazardous. Back in the cities Ling is starting to take victims on the street and the dealers back off. Denis is on the edge of life itself as he discovers the Ling forms an actual conduit or pathway between the conditions of life and death. He must escape.

Details:
• Format: Super 16 mm
• Budget: €2 million
• Finance Plan: Irish Film Board, S481, Northern Ireland Screen, UK Tax credit, Eurimages
• Genre: Art house Thriller (Original)
• Development: -The Irish Film Board (IFB), Northern Ireland Screen & MEDIA.
• Partners Sought: Pre Sales and Equity.
• Producers: Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films, Ireland), Christine Alderson (Ipso Facto, UK), Tamara Anghie (Borderline Productions, N. Ireland),
• Writer/Director: Paddy Jolley
• Cast: TBC