THE HEMLOCK
The door is open
by Awaiting creator · Launched Oct 16, 2026
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About this title
Synopsis
Athens, 399 BC. Socrates is seventy, a stonemason's son, and he has spent his life asking the city's most powerful men questions they could not answer. The city put up with it for decades. Now it has charged him with corrupting the young, and his accusers have the votes. Then comes the wait, thirty days until the sacred ship returns. His friends have bribed the guard. All he has to do is walk out. Every day a different friend is at the cell door with a new reason to run. Escape and he lives, and proves his accusers right about him. Stay and he dies with his argument intact.
Who this is about
Socrates has spent his life asking the city's most powerful men questions they could not answer.
What goes wrong
The city that tolerated him for decades now wants him dead, and his accusers have the votes.
What's at stake
Escape and he lives, but proves his accusers right about him. Stay and he dies with his argument intact.
Why it keeps going
The trial, the thirty days waiting for the sacred ship to return, and a new friend at the cell door every episode with a new reason to run.
Takeaway
A man who will not break the law to save himself shows what the law is for.
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Where your money goes
Your money goes straight to the creator to turn this pitch into a trailer. A pitch today is a poster and a logline. What the money buys is the first piece of film anyone will see.
Nothing is collected until two things are true
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