The film follows a young man from Toronto who entangles himself in one of America’s most high-profile police-involved shootings. While scouring the Internet one night, Daniel Voshart stumbles upon a viral cell phone video. In North Charleston, South Carolina a chilling scene unfolds. A white police officer shoots an unarmed black man in the back as he runs away, pulling the trigger 8 times. Daniel is compelled to dig deeper, hoping to use his expertise in image stabilisation to find evidence in the shaky video that will help indict the police officer. But in the glimmer of a shiny object, he finds something that could potentially help the man he set out to incriminate. Will he take things a step further and leave the comfort and safety of his apartment to actually get involved? What are the implications of being seen as helping a man vilified in the court of public opinion? Set against the bigger narrative of the growing Black Lives Matter movement, the film’s micro-narrative profiles Daniel’s fascinating journey down the rabbit hole and follows his moral quandary to South Carolina.
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