GHOSTS NEVER SLEEP

Jared Dolan (Tony Goldwyn) is armed and barricaded in an apartment, holding police at bay. The unfortunate sequence of events that have led him here flash before his eyes; pieces of a strange puzzle spanning thirty years.

Unresolved childhood trauma ferments at the core of "Ghosts Never Sleep." For Jared, a tragic family past kept secret between him and his unforgiving mother (Faye Dunaway) has begun to seep to the surface.

A struggling screenwriter, Jared has penned a dark tale of a father’s physical abuse of his young son. The story strikes a cord with Melissa (Shea Alexander), a wannabe film producer who relates to the story because of her own abusive childhood.

She convinces Jared to sign a deal with her to find a company to back the movie.

When Jared’s wife Rebecca (Sean Young) reads her husband’s script, the graphic portrayal of family violence brings up troubling questions for her about Jared’s past.

But the more she asks him about the origins of the story, the more he retreats into himself.

When it looks like Melissa has found a company willing to finance the movie, Jared is elated. But, frustrated, his wife seeks answers about the dark nature of the material from Jared’s mother, who now refuses to speak to him.

Mounting guilt and a souring relationship with the increasingly unstable Melissa send Jared into a downward spiral. An inevitable chain of events is now set in motion with deadly consequence.

If Jared is to survive, he must finally face the haunting past he’s tried so hard to avoid.