Towards Darkness

The son of a Colombian banker, photographer Jose lives abroad in New York. While visiting his family during Christmas, he is reunited with a streetwise old flame and reacquainted with the casual violence that mars his country. Within days of his return, Jose is beaten and kidnapped and his captors demand an exorbitant ransom from his parents. Aware that the local police would do more harm than good, Jose's frantic parents enlist the aid of a covert American special operations team to recover their son alive. Jose's father is soon forced to make an unsavory deal with a Colombian warlord in order to secure the million-dollar payment. Meanwhile, Jose remains bound, gagged and blindfolded in an abandoned warehouse in the rainforest, contemplating what he assumes is his imminent murder. America Ferrera co-stars.

“Colombian-born writer-director Antonio Negret's kidnapping thriller tackles the same subject matter as Hollywood's big-budget, star driven Proof of Life. But it's a grittier and more viscerally affecting film.” (Maitland McDonagh, Time Out New York)