The film locates itself in a shadowy warehouse where a clandestine drug deal is underway. However, out of the darkness, an unnamed, unknown assailant makes himself known, and a bloody battle ensues. 

The narrative endeavors to employ action, alongside, an internal emotional battle of the protagonist, to introduce the viewer to its world. A story of loss, tragedy, heartbreak, and vengeance comes into being. Additionally, it presents the short film as the first part of more installments within the universe. 

Though the lighting sometimes exhibits a few rough edges, all the fight scenes and action, which form the main core of the film, are approached with dedication and effort. They are further supported by an energetic background score. The narrative, and subsequently, the screenplay present themselves together like a multilayered product where it is at each step that a layer comes off, taking the viewer deeper into the film’s world.

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The world of the film presents a bleak reality, but one with its moral compass firmly in place. It opens with a grim scene defined by illness, followed by a gory entrant who is covered in blood from head to toe. 

The layers are peeled gradually, employing a movement between past and present which finally reveals how this father-son duo found themselves located in this circumstance. The film builds its world with utmost care and attention to detail. The narrative ropes in ideas of right and wrong, and standing up for what you believe in. However these boundaries might not always be neatly defined and sometimes the cost of pursuing justice can be a little too high, underlines the film. 

The storytelling exhibits vision and deep potential which leaves the door open for more endeavors that should definitely be explored and shared in the future. There is a slight loosening of finesse in the overall production value, but one which is easy to overlook in the face of the world-building and narratorial progression already presented in the form of the end result.

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