Some family secrets are best left buried.
Slip Away
A grieving mother seeks vengeance after the senseless death of her young son.
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The mother of a young child who was accidentally killed in a botched drive-by shooting is carefully hidden away in the witness protection program for her own safety. Away from any type of support system, she struggles to deal with her turmoil alone. Before she’s even settled into her new location, her inner demons have completely taken over. She decides that death can’t come too quickly for the men responsible for killing her only child. With no fear left and nothing left to live for, she slips away from her new location and embarks on a terrifying mission of revenge. Unaware of the danger lurking nearby, the men let their guard down. The woman takes advantage of the situation, and goes after the man who pulled the trigger. Paranoid, the men begin to mistrust each other. They don’t know who their enemy is. In an attempt to save themselves, they jeopardize the career of the only man able to help them, the same federal agent who hid the woman in the first place. As his career continues on a steady downward spiral, it begins to dawn on him what’s really going on. He must decide whether to save the lives of the ungrateful criminals he’s being bankrolled by, or look the other way and risk any chance he has left of saving his own life. All he knows for sure is that some form of deadly justice is being carried out.
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