The Smith Manuscript

A manuscript is found in a box on a beach. The manuscript contains what appears to be a first-hand account of an event that took place in Cannes on the French Riviera in September 2003. Written by a young man called Smith who is tormented by the unresolved murder of his father in Cannes three years earlier, and the subsequent death of his mother; the manuscript takes us on a week long journey in pursuit of a man who appears as an evil omen in Smith's recurring nightmares. In the uber-chic side street neon bars and clubs of Cannes, Smith forms a bond with the sassy and beguiling Clara, but their new found love for each other and dreams of the future are shattered by one decision, one mistake. The Smith Manuscript is a comical yet ultimately bleak and uncompromising lesson in the cold metallic reality of life and living - and of death and dying.