BACKGROUND

The Candidate is an excitingly fresh, and original political thriller that follows the unsettled and emotionally battered CHRIS SUMMERS, a former soldier medically discharged from a profession he has known over his entire adult life, following his return from a troubled overseas posting. ​

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Struggling to reintegrate to life outside the armed services, and his forced integration into a community he feels alienated from, domesticity turns him into an argumentative and disillusioned individual, constantly at odds with his wife MEGAN, who, in the absence of her husband, has forged a new life for herself as a dancer in a nightclub.​

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Allowing his personal experiences to influence hypocritically the motivations of his wife, Chris allows a moment of argument to escalate into an outburst of extreme and deadly violence.

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In the reflective moments that ensue he embarks on a journey to get answers from the one man who should be able to provide them, CLIFFORD LOWE, the local member of parliament, a man he subsequently discovers was more wrapped up in the activities of Summer's wife than perhaps his electorate might be prepared to hear.

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But Chris is deaf and blind to all that. To him it's just another example of the betrayal he feels cursed by - a betrayal that sent him thousands of miles away to fight someone elses war - only to return home to a country that doesn't want to know his story.​