The Widower
After a random robbery leaves his wife dead and his own body broken beyond recognition, a former rugby star spends a year rebuilding himself through an unlikely bond with a troubled young neighbor — then goes to war against the crime boss and enforcers who took everything from him.
Written by Matthias Hues and Leslie Carleton
Synopsis
Matt West has it all: a loving wife, a daughter he adores, and a rugby coaching career at its peak. A wrong turn on a rainy London night puts him and his wife Rachel in a convenience store during a robbery run by Hawk, a sadistic enforcer working for crime boss Lambie. Rachel is murdered in front of him; Matt is beaten to the edge of his life. Months later, a shattered Matt lives alone and anonymous in a rundown flat, his old life gone. His only tether back to the world is Lola, a stray dog belonging to his neighbor Paige, a nineteen-year-old sex worker trapped in debt to Hawk's crew. As Matt slowly rebuilds his body and his will, he and Paige form an unlikely found family — and he starts training, in secret, for a reckoning. When the crew comes for Paige and she's killed protecting the people around her, Matt stops holding back. He hunts down Hawk, then Lambie himself, tearing through the operation in a brutal, bare-knuckle reckoning that ends with Lambie thrown from his own penthouse window. A year later, Matt is rebuilding a life with his daughter Emma and the baby girl he's adopted in Paige's memory — even as someone from that old world watches the family from a distance, camera in hand.
Status
Complete — feature spec script
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