When The Smoke Clears

DIRECTOR:

Michael Shahin

STARRING:

Mario Angelo, Devin Bowie and Christopher Burnham

PLOT:

When The Smoke Clears is the story of three childhood friends and the year that will Dramatically change their lives. The story opens with a flashback to the first time the three try drugs, and then zooms forward to them in their current setting as roommates. Chris is trying to finish getting his degree from a local community college, Shawn works at a local movie theater the he is scamming from, and Raymond is trying to make a move to be a major player in the local drug trade. The story follows each one down their separate paths, Chris struggles to stay sane in his current surrounding, Shawn becomes more and more a drug addict, and Raymond becomes more ruthless as he loses ties to Family. The film is a Drama based on the events that change people's lives and make them ultimately stronger or weaker.