Cost of a Soul

Running time: 105 mins

The old neighborhood is a different kind of war.

Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to their North Philadelphia slum neighborhood. Tommy returns home to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant. He meets his four-year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. Meanwhile, DD's older brother, Darnell, has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin, and DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from becoming another senseless victim of the streets.

Both Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same world they joined the military to escape, and as they struggle to make their wrongs right, their own families become entangled in a web of crime and corruption so thick, murder becomes their only option.

Most films, even the great ones, fade away like mist once you've left the theater. Not this one. Director of Photography Chase Bowman's haunting imagery combined with unforgettable performances by leads Christopher Kerson and Will Blagrove and a powerful writing/directing debut by Sean Kirkpatrick make for a startling tale where the demons we fight at home may be worse than those we face on foreign soil.