FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS

Feature Screenplay | Psychologoical Thriller | Drama

THE LOGLINE

A woman with an uncanny ability to read people is drawn into the investigation of a serial abductor whose crimes mirror the childhood nightmare she survived – forcing her to confront the brother she believed she lost and the terrifying man he has become.

THE STORY

Some memories don’t stay buried. They wait.

Forgive Those Who Trespass is a haunting psychological thriller about trauma, survival, and the terrifying ways the past can shape who we become.

Erin Fletcher has built a life around an uncanny ability to read people – an instinct forged decades earlier when, as a child, she escaped the nightmare that claimed her family and the brother she believed she had lost forever.

Now assisting law enforcement, Erin is drawn into the investigation of a serial abductor whose crimes echo the darkest chapter of her own childhood.

But as the investigation unfolds, Erin discovers a connection to her past that changes everything.

What begins as a search for a predator becomes deeply personal, forcing Erin to confront the brother she once loved, the man he has become, and the question of whether some wounds can ever truly be forgiven.

Tense, atmospheric, and emotionally devastating, Forgive Those Who Trespass is the story that explores the lasting imprint of trauma, the bonds of family, and the courage required to break a cycle of violence before it becomes your inheritance.

WHY THIS STORY SHOULD EXIST

I’m fascinated by the ways our past can shape us – and by the moment when we have to decide whether it will define us.

Forgive Those Who Trespass explores the complicated relationship between trauma, identity, family, and forgiveness. Erin’s journey isn’t simply about catching a predator. It’s about confronting the person and the history that helped shape her, and deciding what she will carry forward – and what she will finally leave behind.

At its core, this is a story about survival. Not simply surviving what happened to you, but finding the strength to keep the darkness that shaped you from becoming the darkness you pass on.