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Closer to the SunCloser to the Sun

Closer to the Sun

Nick Peterson

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Four investigators are assembled by an insurance company in New York to examine a claim for accidental death of six oil workers on an oil platform, off the cost of Nigeria. The team has 24 hours to investigate the claim. It slowly transpires that it wasnʹt accidental death but that the oil workers have been taken hostage by local terrorists, a common occurrence that often goes without victims and in this case six men had died. How to approve the claim when there are so many overwhelming evidences against it? The trouble is for a reputable international insurance company dismissing such a claim would place them at odds with the real problems in the country, place them on the spot as an unlikely human right witness and will compromise a whole system with ramifications to powerful Western governments and multinational companies. They have accidentally walked into highly dangerous grounds...

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OL Work ID
OL16029907W

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screenplayfeature filmthrilleroilinvestigationnick petersonvirtual alienold nickPerforming artsCrime

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