艾米(杰西卡·查斯坦饰)是一名富有同情心的护士和单亲母亲,她正与危及生命的心脏病作斗争,她在重症监护病房上夜班,工作繁重,要求很高,身体和情绪都已达到极限。但当查理(埃迪·雷德梅恩饰),一位体贴而富有同情心的新护士来到她的病房时,帮助到来了。在医院度过漫长的夜晚时,两人建立了牢固 而忠诚的友谊,多年来,艾米第一次对自己和女儿的未来充满信心。但是,在一系列神秘的病人死亡事件引发了一项调查,指出查理是主要嫌疑人之后,艾米被迫冒着生命危险和孩子的安全来揭露真相。
Akilla's Escape weaves the present and past in a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier. Set in Toronto and New York where over 450,00 Jamaicans reside, the story speaks to the historical criminalization of black boys that modern society overlooks.Akilla Brown is forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approval legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery.In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute fifteen-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon leaning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded. Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.