Moonrise

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s girlfriend, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

• difficult childhood
• harassment
• self-defense
• swamp
• childhood trauma
• film noir
• guilt
• surrender
• hiding from the police
• dead father
• righteous rage
• accidental killing
• bully victim
• child raised by grandmother
• criminal father
• execution by hanging
• social stigma
• sins of the father